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Tintype: also called Ferrotype or Malainotype
 Period of use: 1858 - 1910s.

    Tintypes are a variation of the collodion wet plate process.  The emulsion is painted onto a japanned (varnished) iron plate, which is exposed in the camera. 

    Daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes were one of a kind images, and the image was almost always reversed left to right.

    The low cost and durability of tintypes, coupled with the growing number of traveling photographers, enhanced the tintype’s popularity.

         

Tintypes came in a variety of sizes, and were cheaper and sturdier than earlier processes (could be mailed).  As a result, the tintype was popular during the Civil War. 

 

Prints of Tintypes:      

Stores along Alachua Avenue : Gainesville, Florida

Members of the 75th Ohio Infantry in Jacksonville

 

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