Popular during the second half of the nineteenth century, albumen prints were made on paper coated with a solution of albumen (egg white) and sensitized with silver nitrate.
Used primarily with wet-plate collodion negatives and for a short time with dry-plate negatives, albumen prints have a characteristic sepia tone. The dried egg white provided a protective coating that enabled stereographs to be handled without becoming scratched and larger prints to be mounted into albums for frequent viewing.