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I just picked up a vintage newspaper photo negative of an unidentified baseball player from the 1910 era. What type of material would you expect the negative to be made from? I was told that this was an acetate negative. Does anyone know if that would that be consistent with a negative from that era?
The original probably would be glass. Newspapers often kept archives and copy negatives of old images, so it could be a later copy from the newspaper. Plastic film negatives came into usage in the 1930s.
