carbon print

English

Noun

carbon print (plural carbon prints)

(photography) an early photographic print made by soaking a carbon tissue in potassium bichromate
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 10
  It was a small, stuffy, defunct room, of mahogany, and deathly enlargements of photographs of departed people done in carbon.

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