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Re:The Life and Death of London's Crystal Palace (2021) by ajb on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @01:32PM (#44954062)
This page has an illustration from that strange interlude during which photographs weren't mass-reproducible, so the image had to be manually engraved on a wooden printing plate to be reproduced.

"Our image above isn’t a photograph but a print made from an engraving, made from a daguerreotype – one of the first photographic processes. Engravings could easily be printed multiple times and used to illustrate books, whereas photographs could not. "

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