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Posted By: barrysloate

There are amateur photographers today who have studied and learned the process of making modern daguerreotypes, using the same techniques that were used in the 1840's and 1850's. I've seen some of them and they are quite well done. That said, why couldn't someone take a glass plate negative and learn to produce a photograph that would be virtually identical to and nearly indistinguishable from one made in the 1880's? It's not that these proofs can't be period, they very well may be. But you would be amazed what people can do with a little practice and a bit of technology. If the glass plate negatives stayed in the family all those years, it's not unreasonable to think they were used at a somewhat later date to produce additional images.