Albumen

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The Albumen Process is an early dry plate photographic process, based on the wet-collodion process, but additionally treating the plates with a solution of albumen (egg-white) and ammonia and allowing them to dry. The process was invented in 1861 by Joseph Sidebotham.

The albumen plates are much less sensitive (by about two stops) than the wet plates, and tend to have harder contrast.