Tintype

2001.01.325.jpg
2001.01.325 case.jpg

Dublin Core

Title

Tintype
Portrait Tintype Images

Identifier

2001.01.325

Subject

1860s
Photography
Photograph album
Portrait photographs
Cases
Unidentified people in photos
Tintypes

Description

Two tintype portrait images framed in a hinged, brown protective case. The case is embossed leatherette with leather spine. Frames have a glass cover plate and a thin embossed brass mat, folded into a thin preserver frame. Images are cloudy black and white and imprinted onto a magnetic black iron support.

Left framed image of a seated woman and a young girl seated next to her. Both wearing pendants that are hand-colored gold. Woman is wearing a lace collar and pin-tucked taffeta dress with her hair pulled back tight. The girl is wearing a wide collar over a checkered taffeta dress and her hair braided over her ears and pulled back tight.

Image on the right is a portrait of a seated man and woman. They both are wearing jewelry that have been hand-colored gold. Her cheeks are also hand-colored pink. The man is seated on the left with his hands on his knees and wearing a long unbuttoned suit coat with wide, velvet collar and wide lapels over a high-necked waistcoat vest with button closures. She is wearing a lace scalloped collar over a pin-tucked taffeta dress with her hair pulled back tight.

Date

C. 1854-1864

Format

Photographic Emulsion, 3.25" x 2.75"