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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jerry Coker, post: 9790506, member: 18802&quot;]Hello, I&#039;m struggling identifying albumen vs silver gelatin prints, plus other post 19th century prints. Thanks to the folks here I feel pretty comfortable with identifying Dags, Ambros, CDV&#039;s &amp; Tintypes. I guess I need to now find a resource similar to phototree, a website that helps me identify photos made from around the 1890&#039;s to 1940&#039;s. Most Google searches just tell me about the photo making processes, not how to identify the photo in hand, like by feel/touch, size, and visually. If anyone has some suggestions, feel free to enlighten me. Below are a few photos from a recent family album purchase. I&#039;m pretty sure most of these photos are albumen. They measure 3.5x3.25&quot;, they have a shiny gloss, they are very thin, they appear similar to the photos pasted on CDV &amp; cabinet cards, but they are not on card stock, but are inside a photo album, the album has a copyright of 1896, and a few photos appear to be from a President McKinley rally/event, I believe in or near Los Angeles, and McKinley was President from 1897-1901. I&#039;m pretty sure the family in most of these photos lived in or near LA at the time. But there are also a few photos that are the same size (3.5x3.25&quot;), are not glossy, there content appears to be from around same time period, and when you tilt the photo it has a silver sheen in some areas when looked at from an angle. So I think they are silver gelatin? The photo of the people in the car shows the silver like sheen. The photo of the railroad track is glossy. The last 2 photos are glossy, and appear to be from a McKinley event. Thank you.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]484999[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]485000[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]485003[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]485004[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]485018[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]485019[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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