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    Disillusioned with silver salts, he turned his attention to photosensitive organic substances. The ambrotype, which is often confused with the daguerreotype, probably because of the similarity of the mounting and housing, was developed from the wet sheeting process. Ambrotypes were produced by whitening the reflections of the wet plate, prepared with mercury dichloride, and painting…