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Hillotype, portrait of man
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The Photographic History Collection at the National Museum of American History holds an extraordinary series of early color photographs: sixty-two color daguerreotype plates made by Rev. Levi L. Hill in the early 1850s in Westkill, Greene County, New York. This is the world's largest collection of Heliochromy, a rare early color photographic process based on silver chloride.
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Credit lineHillotype, portrait of man. ca 1850s-1860s. Hill, Levi. National Museum of American History. CC0.
