A Barrio Logan artist is working to preserve his community’s history through a nearly 200-year-old form of photography.

She well knows how it is thus preserved for her own use, but perhaps is not aware ... If you ask what this caustic is called, the answer is " nitrate of silver." SEPTIMUS PIESSE.

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