Invented in 1850, and commonly used in the late nineteenth century, the albumen print is a type of photographic print made from paper coated with albumen (egg white)

Photographic print having albumen as the binder; always black-and-white, though it may be toned to a monochrome hue.

Type of photograph that is printed on paper coated with silver salts (the substance that turns dark when it is exposed to light in a camera) suspended in egg whites (albumen). Albumen prints were more [..]

An early photographic process in which a paper support was floated on an emulsion of egg white (albumen) and salt, then coated with a light-sensitive solution of silver nitrate, dried in the dark, and [..]

The use of albumen derived from egg whites was first used in 1848 for dry plates, before being superseded by the wet-collodion process from 1851. Albumen had far greater success for coating on to pape [..]

A photographic printing process, in which egg whites are used in the emulsion. In art the technique has become extinct, and the production of albumen print is only really relevant to authenticators, a [..]