tintypes

They are either on glass, called ambrotypes, or on metal, known as tintypes.

Photos of US Civil War Soldiers Donated to Library of Congress 2010

They are either on glass, called ambrotypes, or on metal, known as tintypes.

Photos of US Civil War Soldiers Donated to Library of Congress 2010

I love being inspired by images too, especially old ones like tintypes or paintings.

Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Words, Pictures, Memory 2009

Tom Liljenquist, 58, a McLean jeweler, last year began giving the Library of Congress almost 700 Civil War-era ambrotypes and tintypes that he and his three sons had amassed over the past 15 years.

Images of the Civil War Post 2010

Hoover, the woman said, had been "dressed like an old flapper, like you see on old tintypes".

The secret life of J Edgar Hoover 2012

But seeing the gilt-framed tintypes in row after virtual row on Flickr is almost as haunting—if not more so.

Salute to History Sara Clemence 2011

Instead it's a jewelry gallery in the middle of an district, but it was here that I found tintypes by Gayle Stevens.

Paul Klein: The Opening of Chicago's Fall Art Season Paul Klein 2011

I studied both black and white and color photography in my homemade darkroom, and studied various earlier photographic techniques (i.e. daguerreotypes, tintypes, etc.) and discovered 1st hand the dangerousness of certain chemicals or materials (e.g. nitrocellulose-based film), even with proper ventilation.

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There will never be any real money in those galloping tintypes, and certainly no one can expect them to develop into anything which could . . . be called art.

Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010

Kimberly and I share a love for tintypes, which are photographs on metal and which were all the rage back in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

The Sock Monkey Tintype Woman « knitnut.net 2009