Albumen

CHARLES MARVILLE, Rue des Sept-Voies de la rue St. Hilaire, ca. 1865, Albumen silver print from wet-collodion-on-glass negative, 11 5/16 x 10 1/2 inches, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Lent by the Troob Family Foundation

Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: First Impressions 2010

CHARLES MARVILLE, Rue des Sept-Voies de la rue St. Hilaire, ca. 1865, Albumen silver print from wet-collodion-on-glass negative, 11 5/16 x 10 1/2 inches, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Lent by the Troob Family Foundation

Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: First Impressions 2010

All the while she slept her glittering ordnance flew through the air over the Albumen, over the financial district, over the salons and the crowded tenements.

Shelfari: Omnivoracious 2009

Albumen print from two collodion-on-glass negatives

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

All the while she slept her glittering ordnance flew through the air over the Albumen, over the financial district, over the salons and the crowded tenements.

Catherynne M. Valente's Palimpest: An Exclusive Excerpt Omnivoracious 2009

Albumen from egg whites, milk proteins and isinglass, from sturgeon bladders, may be added to wine to remove tannins, reducing excessive astringency.

From the WSJ Opinion Archives James Taranto 2007

Albumen diluted by 40% or more of its volume in water cannot produce a stable foam.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

Albumen diluted by 40% or more of its volume in water cannot produce a stable foam.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

In 1900 James reported in a letter to his sister, Alice, that in a recent conversation Twain had offered "a muddled and confused glimpse of Lord Kelvin, Albumen, Sweden and half a dozen other things," but the confusion — though Twain's drawl no doubt had a good deal to do with it — was mostly James's: Twain had been referring not to Lord Kelvin but to a fashionable Swedish osteopath named Kellgren.

The Atlantic | July/August 2001 | Mark Twain's Reconstruction | Blount Jr. 2001

Albumen in this form dissolves with rapidity, owing to its state of fine division.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 Various