Woman looking into mirror (1870)

Unidentified Photographer

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Portrait of a woman looking into mirror

ca. 1870
tintype with applied color
10.0 x 6.5 cm.
Museum Collection
GEH NEG: 3420
78:0829:0013
Via George Eastman House.

Flickor vid runsten

Flickor vid runsten i Herstabergs park. Inskriften lyder: Vibern reste denna sten efter Solva, sin broder.
Via Riksantikvarieämbetet.

Тамара Платоновна Карсавина

Provenance: The von Üxküll-Gyllenband family archive.

Tamara Karsavina (Тамара Платоновна Карсавина)

Confederate soldier Lawrence "Laurie" M. Anderson

Title
Confederate soldier Lawrence "Laurie" M. Anderson

Image Number: RC11475
Year: 186-
Series Title: Reference collection

General Note
Laurie M. Anderson of Tallahassee was a member of the Bradford Light Infantry, Florida Battalion, Company A. He died April 7, 1862, at the Battle of Shiloh.

General Note
The 1st Florida Volunteer Infantry fought at the Battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862.

Via State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory.

Tens-Kwau-Ta-Waw, the Prophet, 1837

Tens-Kwau-Ta-Waw, the Prophet, 1837
E. C. Biddle, Philadelphie
Estampe
Code de référence : RG 2-344-0-0-70
Archives publiques de l'Ontario, I0009202

The Cheapness and Americanness of the Tintype

"We find that the word tintype was widely used from early on; and it is the only word generally recognized today. How did this come about? None of the literature, past or present, gives an adequate explanation for the misnomer. We can speculate that tintype derives from tinplate, the name of the thin iron sheet used by the tinsmith to construct his wares.
The manufacturers of ferrotype or tintype plates also used tinplate, coating it with black enamel and photographic emulsion. It was a short leap from tinplate to the alliterative tintype. I believe that tintype replaced ferrotype and melainotype because it is short and catchy, because it sounds American and cheap."

America and the Tintype
Steven Kasher
With essays by Geofffry Batchen & Karen Haltunen
ICP/STEIDL, 2008
ISBN 978-3-86521-686-1