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Show Green bottle- no caption Heading: Photographic Chemicals Label 1: To process the glass plate negatives, Disfarmer followed four steps: 1. The plates were submerged in a development bath to expose the image 2. They were then transferred to a stop bath containing water or a weak acid like vinegar to stop the development 3. The plates were then dipped into a fixer bath to remove the unused lightsensitive silver from the negative 4. Lastly, a wash bath of running water was used to clean all chemicals from the glass plates. This process could take as long as an hour and a half. Label 2: Disfarmer most likely used commercially available Kodak developers and fixers that would be diluted and transferred into bottles. Because photographers worked in the dark, they commonly organized this process in either one of two wa s: the used identical bottles alwa s arran ed in the same order, or the |
