Relationships Broader Term:  collodion photographs photograph Related Term:  cased photographs tintype wet collodion n. ~ A positive photograph on glass made using the wet-collodion process, often han [..]

1855, American English, apparently from Greek ambrotos "immortal, imperishable" (see ambrosia), with second element from daguerreotype. A type of photograph on glass with lights given by sil [..]

A photographic process that creates a positive photographic image on a sheet of glass using the wet plate collodion process.

Type of photograph made between 1850 and 1860 in which a negative was attached to a piece of glass with black paper or cloth behind it. Against the black background, the tones of the resulting

A photographic process in widespread use for about a decade beginning in 1852, in which an under-exposed wet-collodion glass negative is made to appear positive when placed against a dark background ( [..]

this was a technique originally patented in 1843 for applying a positive photo image onto glass.  Usually, the image is backed by a dark color.  Ambrotypes were used during the campaigns immediately f [..]

A collodion positive created by placing an underexposed, bleached glass collodion negative in front of a dark background, often cloth or lacquer, to give the image the appearance of a positive image. Patented in the United States in 1854 by James Ambrose Cutting. Popular 1850s-70s.

<photography> A picture taken on a place of prepared glass, in which the lights are represented in silver, and the shades are produced by a dark background visible through the unsilvered portions of the glass. Origin: Gr. Immortal + -type. (01 Mar 1998)

A reproduced photographic image created from a glass plate, it differs from a daguerreotype, which was made from a highly polished metal plate. Source: Fern and Kaplan, "Viewpoints" (Collect [..]

A photographic process consisting of a collodion positive on glass backed by an opaque material and held in a hinged case. Ambrotypes largely replaced daguerreotypes (with which they are easily confus [..]