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bluntly that Hill's purported discovery was "a delusion." When a few years later Hill sought to publish his heliochromy formula, Davie obtained a court order banning the sale of Hill's book on the grounds that it libeled him and his committee, with the result that most of the edition was pulped. Recent researchers have found that Davie's team was not quite correct: although Hill appears to have faked some of the color in his images, it also appears that his process can indeed produce a muted color spectrum.
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383:"Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Receives Grant to Study One of Photography's Biggest Historical Mysteries". National Museum of American History press release, September 27, 2006.
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of which no known copies survive. Davie's assistant for three years in the mid-1850s was the photographer
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1855 NYS Census record at Utica, Oneida County, New York.
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