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| | The Social Construction of the American Daguerreotype Portrait: The American Reception |
 | | The tint has largely faded from surviving daguerreotypes (and they are almost always reproduced in black and white), but it is clear in the few tinted daguerreotypes that we can examine (see Figure 1) that the color is anything but "realistic." It is cartoonish, really; if it represents natural color, it is only by analogy. | | | This would remain the standard, more or less, until the daguerreotype was replaced; it would also always be necessary to support the sitter's head with an iron stand on a pole, as Draper did. | | | Many daguerreotypists used a tinting method developed in the early 1840's to give color to their photographs. |
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http://www.americandaguerreotypes.com/ch1.html
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| | Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide: Spring 2002 |
| | Introducing the use of the camera, the writer then overstates the effects of the daguerreotype, asserting that it reproduces not only the lines and contours of an object but also its modeling and color by "fixing" the object's reflected image in the camera obscura. | | | The Diorama is a signal figure in this "crisis" of imitation. | | | A brief look at this history reveals even more information about the "popular" roots of the daguerreotype. |
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http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/spring_02/articles/pins_print.html
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| | Light and dark: the daguerreotype and art history. - The Art Bulletin - HighBeam Research |
| | English and American daguerreotypes follow an earlier tradition in which painted miniatures were placed in cases. | | | However, after much argument, it was decided that because dimensional alterations and other changes in the image were less likely, better measurements could be taken from a dry photographic plate such as daguerreotypy employs. | | | The 175 exhibits on display at the Metropolitan Museum represented a greatly reduced version of an exhibition of 340 objects held a few months earlier at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris--Le daguerreotype francais: Un objet photographique (May 13-April 17, 2003), (2) Restricted by the space available to him at the Metropolitan. |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:126422076&refid=holomed_1
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| | THE MAKING OF A DAGUERREOTYPE |
| | Thus, this pictorial instruction manual is offered for step by step making of a daguerreotype, utilizing only the finest examples of vintage equipment from the 1840s and the 1850s. | | | To its right is shown a tinted sixth plate daguerreotype (h), maker unknown, ca. | | | (Though in the illustrated detail of this layout, an extra plateholder (gandh) is displayed partially drawn up in order to show the polished and sensitized daguerreotype plate’s position (i) within the plateholder (g). |
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| | Place in a vessel a little water, into which put the smallest possible quantity of free iodine and add a little starch, and the liquid will instantly assume a blue color. | | | To Color Back-grounds--To obtain a properly colored back ground is a matter of no little importance to the Daguerreotype operator. | | | In the absence of cyanide of potassium, a solution of pure hyposulphite of soda will answer as a fair substitute. |
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| | Daguerreotype Photographs: The Daguerreotype |
| | The earliest cameras used in the daguerreotype process were made by opticians and instrument makers, or sometimes even by the photographers themselves. | | | Copies were also produced by lithography or engraving. | | | Portraits based upon daguerreotypes appeared in popular periodicals and in books. |
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| | G Table |
| | The firm advertised "daguerreotype plates and cases, also chemicals for artists." The firm was also listed in Syracuse, N.Y., as daguerreian dealers. | | | In 1857, Gill was listed in the directory as treasurer of the Conestoga Steam Mill, with no mention of daguerreotyping. | | | He offered ambrotypes, daguerreotypes, photographs, "melenotypes" and Sphereotypes. |
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| | Typical daguerreian artist's (photographer's) business cards included with the daguerreotypes, enlarged to twice actual size (200%). | | | A highly desirable item - an identified daguerreotype: "Waldo Thompson, Swampscott, Mass. | | | Peak years of manufacture were 1852 to 1854 and it was seldom made after 1860. |
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| | Daguerreotypes were produced in a variety of sizes: | | | FMP Home > Online Classroom > Daguerreotype to Digital | | | It was made by exposing the image on a sensitized silver-plated sheet of copper, and as a result, the surface of a daguerreotype is highly reflective. |
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http://www.floridamemory.com/OnlineClassroom/photographic-processes/daguerreotype.cfm
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| | www.daguerreotype.nl; daguerreotypes for sale |
| | Childeren with toys are a rare subject so don't let it slip away. | | | On this site I have posted an offering of daguerreotypes and ambrotypes for sale. | | | 1/4 plate Sabatier-Blot Daguerreotype of a Young Boy and his Mama c.1843 (blue tone to plate - indicative of early chemistry) in passepartout package with signature and address of photographer on the paper mat. |
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http://www.daguerreotype.nl
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| | A History of Photography, by Robert Leggat: The DAGUERREOTYPE |
| | Sometimes the details might reveal something that the photographer had not intended. | | | Do have a look at the site dedicated exclusively to Daguerre. | | | The daguerreotype, aptly called a "mirror with a memory", was an amazing development, and one cannot but marvel at the intricacy of the detail. |
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http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/history/daguerro.htm
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| | daguerreotype -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! |
| | Daguerreotypes were on metal; photogenic drawings were on paper. | | | The first daguerreotype image was produced in 1837, by which time Niepce had died, so the process was named for Daguerre. | | | Many daguerreotypes, especially portraits, were made in the mid 19th century; the technique was gradually replaced by the wet collodion process, introduced in 1851. |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9362167?tocId=9362167
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| | At Home : Artwork : Pre-Civil War Daguerreotype : Home & Garden Television |
| | The value of a daguerreotype depends on a large number of factors, including the size of the image (larger is generally better), the subject matter (military and outdoor scenes are much more desired than simple portraits of ordinary people) and the condition (both daguerreotypes and ambrotypes are very delicate). | | | Vintage daguerreotypes were last made about 1865, and they were generally out of favor by about 1860. | | | Daguerreotypes and ambrotypes are usually found in some sort of case, and the absence of the case in this instance detracts from the photograph's value. |
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http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/ah_antique_artwork/article/0,1801,HGTV_3082_1981948,00.html
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| | ECPA: To have and to hold: Processes |
| | Daguerreotypes stayed popular until the 1850s, when they were gradually displaced by photographs on paper. | | | Developing-out papers were available from 1873 onwards and can be seen as the predecessors of the gelatin-silver papers today. | | | The first two photographic processes the daguerreotype and the calotype both had their pros and cons. |
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http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/photo/proces01.htm
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| | Film History Before 1920 |
| | It was a hollow, rotating drum/cylinder with a crank, with a strip of photographs or illustrations on the interior surface and regularly spaced slits through which a spectator observed the 'moving' drawings. | | | 1839 - the birth of photography with the development of the first commercially-viable daguerreotype (a method of capturing still images on silvered, copper-metal plates) by French painter and inventor Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre |
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| | The American Museum of Photography: Resources |
| | A daguerreotype is made on a sheet of silver-plated copper. | | | Daguerreotypes have exceptionally fragile surfaces and for this reason, they were always furnished behind glass in frames or small folding cases. | | | The detail and tonal range, however, tend to be less impressive than in the earlier process. |
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http://www.photography-museum.com/primer.html
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| | As I Please - The Revolutionary Eyes of George Fishley |
| | Early daguerreotype models had to look at the lens and freeze for as much as 30 seconds adding to their ghostly gaze and brittle posture. | | | Even the photographic process had changed from the rich lustrous metallic daguerreotype to the flatter sepia-toned paper printing common in the Civil War. | | | Dennis makes his living exclusively by selling early daguerreotypes and has one of the largest private collections (see related story in Section C). |
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| | Authentication of the Lincoln Portrait Daguerreotype |
| | The surface of a daguerreotype is covered with a thin film of a mercury/silver amalgram that affects light refraction. | | | The collar is not under the mandible as it appears in prints made from the daguerreotype. | | | As the ramus of the mandible turns upward toward the ear, it (the height of the jawbone) appears to be shorter in a Kaplan daguerreotype print than in Lincoln photographs; however, in the actual Kaplan daguerreotype, it is the same. |
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| | Lost and Found: Terms & Technologies: Daguerreotype: Here's Looking at Me |
| | The image was usually protected by a plate of glass, held in place by a gold-plated mat, and contained as a precious memento in a small, embossed leather case or a carefully crafted plastic "Union" case, adorned with velvet on the inside and tiny brass clasps on the outside. | | | The plate was then ready to be placed into the daguerreian "camera" (a modification of the camera obscura, in which the prepared daguerreotype plate took the place of the original tracing glass). | | | He described his eponymous invention as follows: "The daguerreotype is not merely an instrument which serves to draw nature. |
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| | Book on Mormon Religion |
| | Daguerreotypes are a predecessor to photographs, but because of their small size cannot show a great deal of detail. | | | A very good actual photo of the daguerreotype (which is now stored in the Granite vaults of the church) is on display at the Daughters Of Utah Pioneers Museum in Cedar City Utah. | | | Some daguerreotypes reveal shapes in the windows which strongly suggest a design totally unlike a pentagram, and very much like the circular windows found on the St. George Temple, and various surviving paintings depicting the Nauvoo temple. |
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| | Daguerreotype Portraits: At Ease [The American Museum of Photography™] |
| | Unless otherwise indicated, daguerreotypes are 2-3/4 x 3-1/4 inches by unknown American makers | | | The daguerreotypes in this exhibition, taken around 1850, are the antithesis of the "stiff old photographs" cliché. | | | But this image (by C. McMillan and Co., Cincinnati) was made in 1883--a generation after the first portrait photographs were taken by the daguerreotype process. |
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| | American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype - CHAPTER V Daguerreotypes |
| | "By a little judgment and care the operator will be enabled to produce the electrotype copy of the Daguerreotype plate without any difficulty. | | | Another method is to have a wheel with a hole cut through it of a diameter of about 12 inches. | | | The following method of producing Daguerreotypes has by some been named as above. |
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http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/tech/photography/AmericanHandBookoftheDaguerreotype/chap5.html
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| | The Daguerreian Society: A History of the Daguerreotype |
| | By the late 1850's, inexpensive, imitative ambrotypes (1854), cheap, quick tintypes (1856), and sharp paper prints in multitude from glass negatives (1851), had all cut into the dominance of the daguerreotype. | | | In the first half of the 1860's, soldiers in the American Civil War favored light, durable paper prints or tintypes of their loved ones over fragile, bulky daguerreotypes, and the war itself was documented on glass negatives that were printed in editions of thousands. | | | Though often far less than flattering, daguerreotype likenesses were regarded as mirrors of truth. |
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| | PhotoNotes.org Dictionary - Daguerreotype |
| | Daguerreotype photos were printed on thin metal sheets. | | | Nonetheless Daguerreotype technology was capable of producing very detailed images. | | | You couldn’t shoot a single negative and then produce multiple positives like you can with modern processes. |
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| | Secrets of the Dark Chamber: 19th C. Texts on the Daguerreotype |
| | Long after it had been replaced by the cheaper tintype and paper prints of a negative-based, reproducible photography, the daguerreotype remained a valued, if no longer practiced, tradition. | | | Also included is a history of the daguerreotype in America written by those who had a firsthand role in its history or who were eyewitnesses to its development. | | | Albert S. Southworth, "An Address to the National Photographic Association," 1870, Philadelphia Photographer, October 1871 |
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| | Omaha, Follow the Stories: The Purloined Portrait |
| | Sally Guest's daguerreotype, with its embellished protective case. | | | Cheaper, less complicated photographic processes quickly supplanted the daguerreotype by the early 1850s. | | | The daguerreotype that Guest bought — and believed she owned — was under investigation as a stolen work of art, one that by then had crossed several state borders. |
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| | Early Photographic Processes - Daguerreotype |
| | Daguerreotypes were normally mounted behind glass in small hinged cases with velvet lining. | | | At one time in the 1840s, there were 2,000 Daguerreotype photographers in the USA. | | | A daguerreotype photograph is a faint negative image, but with good detail, on the copper plate, as a result of its very thin image on the metal surface. |
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http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/1_early/1_early_photography_-_processes_-_daguerreotype.htm
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| | ArtLex on Daguerreotypes |
| | Although the daguerreotype process process was largely discarded in the mid-1860s, overtaken by the development of other photographic techniques, it has seen something of a revival in recent years. | | | 1850, daguerreotype, 21.6 x 16.5 cm (8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. | | | Cornelius Conway Felton with His Hat and Coat, early 1850s, daguerreotype, visible: 8.3 x 7 cm (3 1/4 x 2 3/4 inches) each, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. |
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| | languagehat.com: DAGUERREOTYPE. |
| | Many if not most of these processes were given names that also used the "-otype" or "-type" suffix by analogy to the daguerreotype, such as the calotype, cyanotype, ambrotype, tintype a.k.a. | | | All of these processes came into popular use in the mid-19th century, well before the OED fascicle of 1894. | | | Daguerreotype was the first photographic technique to make it out of the science lab and into the studio -- Daguerre sold the rights to his eponymous process to the French government in 1839. |
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| | Antiques Roadshow/Antique Speak: Daguerreotype |
| | The daguerreotype was invented first, and was also the first commercially successful photographic process. | | | "A mirror with a memory" is how the daguerreotype was marketed. | | | With its realistic image, the daguerreotype put many of these artists out of business, says Wes, and inspired others to become daguerreotype artists themselves. |
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| | Striking Daguerreotype Portrait |
| | Most likely this photograph dates to the 1850s. | | | Daguerreotypes continue to amaze me. A well made daguerreotype reveals more detail and subtlety than the most modern films. | | | This image was scanned with a mid-quality scanner and further manipulated by reducing its size, and using compression for fast loading over the Web. |
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| | Focus On: Daguerreotype of Faneuil Hall |
| | However, few early daguerreotypes of buildings exist today. | | | The Massachusetts Historical Society has a collection of over 450 daguerreotypes, most of which are portraits that have come to the MHS individually or as part of collections of personal and family papers. | | | The majority of the extant daguerreotypes from the Daguerrian Age, 1839-1860, are studio portraits, rather than images set in the outdoors. |
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| | Amon Carter Museum Sights Once Seen |
| | Participants will enjoy hands-on experience producing a daguerreotype, which will be theirs to keep. | | | In 1853, explorer John C. Frémont led an expedition from Missouri to California in an attempt to locate a route for the proposed transcontinental railway. | | | Mike Robinson will conduct two daguerreotype workshops at the Amon Carter Museum. |
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| | Lost and Found: Catalogue Abstracts: Anonymous Identity: The Daguerreotype in Antebellum America by Tami René ... |
| | The daguerreotype captured not just the images of loved ones but also their shadows, features somehow more tangible than those conveyed by painted miniatures or silhouettes. | | | Through the daguerreotype, one could have a tangible and treasured reminder of loved ones and feel a connection to the family at large and the society in general. | | | The images contained in daguerreotypes were superior in detail and accuracy as compared to previous means of portraiture, but the daguerreotype did more than merely improve the state of fashioning likenesses. |
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| | The Earliest Known Photograph of Abraham Lincoln |
| | Shepherd was a daguerreian, and he called his studio a Daguerreotype Miniature Gallery. | | | Harris recognized these daguerreotypes as the work of his friend, and said that Lincoln sat for Shepherd one or more times. | | | Lincoln photograph expert Lloyd Ostendorf believed Shepherd made the daguerreotypes between June and December, 1846. |
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| | This "graininess" is probably due to the gross enlargement from the original daguerreotype, however there is a startling photographic quality to the eyes. | | | The Library of Congress copy is an 8x10 inch print, which would be an obvious enlargement of a small original daguerreotype. | | | Clear reproduction presented a problem because the majority of daguerreotypes in 1844 were only the size of a large postage stamp. |
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| | The Georgian Museum of Photography |
| | Unfortunately the daguerreotypes were not made to last long and consequently only a minor part of them has survived. | | | The daguerreotypes were distinguished by a high quality and played a significant role in the popularization of photography. | | | The invention of the French artist Louis Daguerre, according to which it was possible to fix an image on a silver plate through the camera - obscura only in one copy became known in 1839. |
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| | Louis Daguerre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A few years after Nicéphore Niépce produced the world's first photograph, the two men started a four-year cooperation until Niépce's sudden death in 1833. | | | Antoine Claudet was one of the few people legally able to take daguerreotypes there. | | | Daguerre's patent was acquired by the French Government, and, on August 19, 1839, the French Government announced the invention was a gift "Free to the World." However, Daguerre himself deposed the patent for England on August 12, and this greatly slowed the development of photography in Great Britain. |
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| | Search Results for "Daguerreotype" |
| | Inflected forms: da·guerre·o·typed, da·guerre·o·typ·ing, da·guerre·o·types To make a daguerreotype of. | | | ...the 1990s, Close began to produce portrait and figure studies using both holographic and daguerreotype techniques.... | | | Young incredibly, Younger than spring, without the faintest trace Of disappointment, weariness, or tean 5 Upon the childlike earnestness... |
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| | DAGUERREAN BROADSIDE |
| | THE HISTORY OF THE DAGUERREOTYPE PROCESS: Information from the Daguerreian Society | | | Links to other websites that feature daguerreotypes are included. | | | The viewer will learn about this mid-19th century form of photography invented by Louis J. Daguerre of France and how to build a daguerreotype collection. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Daguerreotype |
| | The popular desire to enjoy photography in colour is evidenced in the frequency with which hand colouring was used to enhance early images. | | | This account of a demonstration of the Daguerreotype by its inventor appeared in The Times on September 10, 1839, one month after the announcement... | | | Daguerreotype, first practical photographic process, announced by François Arago at the Paris Académie des Sciences on August 19, 1839. |
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| | An elusive water droplet gains eerie permanence in daguerreotype artwork |
| | Images of oscillation, Fuss' daguerreotypes can even strike the eye as pictorial equivalents of sounding tones, a hint of synaesthesia that Kandinsky would have appreciated. | | | Fuss' daguerreotypes look antique and futuristic, abstract and descriptive at the same time. | | | Art fair standards reach new heights in the Netherlands |
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| | Copy Daguerreotype of a Daguerreotype Portrait of an Unidentified Man (Getty Museum) |
| | This daguerreotype plate reveals the manufacturer's name: Edmund White & Co. of New York, the largest plate maker in America in the 1840s. | | | Multiple copies of famous people were widespread, and families often required duplicates for their relatives. | | | Copy Daguerreotype of a Daguerreotype Portrait of an Unidentified Man (Getty Museum) |
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| | Daguerreotype of Artist John Gadsby Chapman |
| | Possibly the only daguerreotype of Chapman to exist. | | | He was paid a huge sum for the painting. | | | Description: Daguerreotype of Artist John Gadsby Chapman who painted the Baptism of Pocohontas that hangs in the Rotunda of the Capitol, Washington DC. |
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| | Donut's Daily Daguerreotype |
| | That's Harland & Wolf in the background, the shipyard where RMS Titanic was built and where until recently Catholics were blacklisted. | | | This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar. | | | Daguerreotype - (noun) an early photograph using a silvered plate and mercury vapour [named after L. Daguerre, French inventor, 1789-1851] |
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