dry plate

I have known a man find that determining factor in a dry-plate factory, and another in writing a history of the Manor.

The exposure is much longer than in ordinary dry plate work, generally lasting in the neighborhood of five minutes.

Because of the sun and the dry plate, illustrators had to find inks and methods which would aid the engraver as much as possible.

The recent advances in dry-plate photography have vastly increased our powers of dealing with this subject.

An occasional lone poplar tree developed in the mist as an object on a dry plate develops.