| While the tintype served the mass-portraiture market, wet-plate lent itself to landscapes, cityscapes, and mass-reproduced celebrity portraits. |
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| There is one half-plate tintype portrait of Mrs. Harrison Stephens ca. 1880 in the Notman Photographic Archives. |
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| In 2007, midway through her training as an art conservator, Melissa Cacciola found herself learning about tintype portraits. |
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| In the 1850s the daguerreotype gave way to a cheap hybrid, the tintype, and to a new form of negative-to-positive photography known as wet-plate or wet-collodion. |
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| Perhaps they had this tintype made for their parents to remember them by while they were away. |
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| The desk was covered with four cream-colored telephones, a prayer book, several photographs of lions, a tintype of Mayer's mother, and a statuette of the Republican Party's elephant. |
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| The production of political pins — more than a century's worth are on view here — began in the eighteen-sixties, with the advent of tintype, and exploded in the 1896 Presidential race, after the invention of plastic. |
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