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What is a tintype?

What is a tintype? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An early, remarkably durable form of photograph (technically a photographic negative), printed on a tin plate, then varnished.
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But there wasn't anything in that recarnification and revulsion to tintype for me.
While the tintype served the mass-portraiture market, wet-plate lent itself to landscapes, cityscapes, and mass-reproduced celebrity portraits.
We sat together, and the picture, a tintype, was pronounced an excellent likeness.
There is one half-plate tintype portrait of Mrs. Harrison Stephens ca. 1880 in the Notman Photographic Archives.
Perhaps they had this tintype made for their parents to remember them by while they were away.
Oh, yes, but it wasn't on the tintype that the other fellow should have been there at all.

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