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 | Robert Hirsch Seizing the Light: A Social History of Photography, Second edition (McGraw-Hill, 2009) Chapter: 4 Section: 1 Paragraph: 884 Buy this book |
Anon. Memorial Still Life (Washington State) 1870 (ca)Tintype 7 x 5 in Paul Cava Fine Art Courtesy of Paul Cava Fine Art LL/10835 |
Anon. Model of a Civil War Ship n.d.Tintype, 1/6 plate Be-Hold Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (52 / 10) Elaborate detail of the rigging, the gun ports, the armored turrets on deck. This looks like an ironclad ram, and perhaps the very one can be identified. 1/6 plate TINTYPE in a nice thermoplastic frame with one repaired crack. There is a small rub to the left of the ship, and a few minor marks. LL/30995 |
Anon. Greek Art n.d.Melainotype Be-Hold Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (49 / 20) The tintype was patented in 1856 by Peter Neff, who had been assigned the patent by the inventor Hamilton L. Smith. They called the iron plates "melainotypes" and these original plates were sold stamped with the Neff patent on the edge. This series is an important example. These early plates are heavier than the more common later tintypes, and are true 1/6 plate size, instead of the CDV size that became more common, and that allowed them to be placed in albums alongside CDV's, rather than having to be placed in cases. Like the ambrotype, these early iron plates aspired and sometimes achieved a conscious artistic status, as opposed to the more mundane and attractively lively character of the later tintypes. Smith and Neff (who had earlier been associated with Yale) were on the faculty of Kenyon College in Ohio, and this important series of photographs of Greek art objects has an academic character. It seems to be a recording of a collection of objects in some museum or other institution, and associates this new process with highest level of art. These 10 plates are all undamaged; tones vary slightly. LL/18512 |
Anon. Greek Art n.d.Melainotype Be-Hold Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (49 / 20) LL/18513 |
Anon. Unidentified hand-operated pump device 1870 (ca)Tintype 8.8 x 6.4 cm George Eastman House Courtesy of George Eastman House, Museum Purchase: Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund (83:0121:0001) LL/6932 |
Anon. Portrait of a couple with their viewer and cards n.d.Tintype, full plate 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in Stereoviews: Stereoviews and Fine 19th & 20th Century Antique Photographs Courtesy of David Spahr (www.stereoviews.com) David Spahr noted that the view in the viewer is Taughannock Falls near Ithaca, NY (USA) LL/11629 |
Anon. Girl In Plaid Dress 1870 (ca)Tintype 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 in (full plate) Paul Cava Fine Art Courtesy of Paul Cava Fine Art LL/10836 |
Anon. The living head clamp n.d.Tintype Be-Hold Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (45 / 35) A mother with her face obliterated holds the sullen child. The tinted vertical tablecloth adds to the surreal character. In the collection of Nigel Maister. (November 2006) LL/10883 |
Anon. Chinese Man 1860s (ca)Tintype 1/6 plate Carl Mautz Vintage Photographs Courtesy of Carl Mautz This tintype was found in California. LL/11977 |
Anon. US boxers 1878Tintype, 1/9 plate Stereoviews: Stereoviews and Fine 19th & 20th Century Antique Photographs Courtesy of David Spahr (www.stereoviews.com) LL/11628 |
Anon. Two women & man in studio prop boat [Possibly Samuel Castner Sr., 1798-1879] 1875 (ca)Tintype 10.8 x 15.7 cm George Eastman House Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of 3M Company, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley (GEH NEG: 25067) LL/6921 |
Anon. 2-headed boy 1900 (ca)Tintype, double exposure Andrew Daneman collection of American Tintypes LL/30013 |
A.E. & A.J. Alden (Saratoga) A group of people outside one of the Springs at Saratoga, N.Y. n.d.Tintype, stereoscopic Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#15 / 215) Stereo Tintypes are the rarest of all stereo media. LL/11070 |
Anon. A group suicide 1875 (ca)Tintype 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 in Andrew Daneman collection of American Tintypes LL/24366 |
Anon. A man riding an unusual bicycle or more correctly a tricycle. n.d.Tintype, 1/6 plate Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#16/127) It appears to be an English Rudge Rotary Tricycle from the 1880s. LL/13258 |
Anon. Union Hotel, Gordon, Penn'a. T.M. Bolich, Prop. 1860sTintype, in carboard mount Andrew Daneman collection of American Tintypes LL/29770 |
Anon. A winter sleigh ride 1880 (ca)Tintype 4 x 5 in Andrew Daneman collection of American Tintypes LL/24361 |
Anon. Brickmaking Construction Scene 1870 (ca)Tintype 5 x 7 in Paul Cava Fine Art Courtesy of Paul Cava Fine Art LL/10833 |
Anon. Loew's "Broadway Bridge" at Fulton and Broadway, NY 1866-1868Tintype 4 x 5 in Andrew Daneman collection of American Tintypes LL/24292 |
Anon. Two women fencing 1885 (ca)Tintype 6.3 x 9.0 cm George Eastman House Courtesy of George Eastman House (82:1414:0001) LL/6929 |
Anon. Three Men with Cigars 1870sTintype, 1/6 plate, in decorative silver frame - not original Charles Schwartz Ltd Courtesy of Charles Schwartz Ltd (www.cs-photo.com - #7405) LL/9069 |
Anon. Bird's-Eye View of New England Town, Most Likely New Hampshire 1860 (ca)Tintype, stereoview in a Mascher Case Charles Schwartz Ltd Courtesy of Charles Schwartz Ltd (www.cs-photo.com - #8038) LL/9072 |
Susan Seubert Corset 2003Tintype G. Gibson Gallery LL/4353 |
Jayne Hinds Bidaut Charaxes castor—Zebra Butterfly—Central Africa 1998-2002 (ca)Tintype Barry Singer Gallery LL/2757 |
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