| HOW TO MAKE A DAGUERREOTYPE | |
| 1. The corners of the silverplated
cupperplate are clipped and the edges are slightly turned down. The plate was held in a wooden block and was polished with finest rottenstone with a square of Canton flannel. |
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| 2. The plate was polished with a curved hand bufff. |  |
| 3. The conical buff wheel allowed the use of a whole skin. |  |
| 4. In the dark room the plate was
sensitizied with bromine and iodine. |
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| 5. Cross section of the coating box. |  |
| 6. The plate was exposed.. |  |
| 7. Now the plate was developed with mercury fumes. |  |
| 8. The plate was fixed with a solution of hyposulphite of soda and thoroughly washed. |
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| 9. The plate was gilded with a weak
solution of chloride of gold, washed and finnally dried over a spirit lamp. |
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| Warning: The daguerreotype process requires the use of dangerous chemicals. |
Pics from Sientific American, 1887. http://www.daguerre.org/ |