Very interesting photo

[Skutatos]

Re: Very interesting photo

Glad I could be of some assistance and I hope you find all the information necessary for a regimental history. There can never be too many.

[Michael Comer]

Re: Very interesting photo

It's still a really neat photo - no matter which war it's from.

[dixieflyer]

Re: Very interesting photo

It's still a really neat photo - no matter which war it's from.

You've got that right!

[brown]

Re: Very interesting photo

The photo is from the Joseph Rabb collection at the Indiana Historical Society and is described as a "tintype." The attached is a photo copy of the "tintype."

I concur on the Span-Am thoughts, but wonder how far the misidentification goes. I know little about turn of the century photography methods, but the tintype label also stands out to me.

[David Fox]

Re: Very interesting photo

Tintypes, I believe you'll find, were still a cheap form of photogaphy late in the 19th Century in America. I've a tintype of my grandfather as a boy, he born in 1882.

[MissouriStateGuard]

Re: Very interesting photo

Tintypes, I believe you'll find, were still a cheap form of photogaphy late in the 19th Century in America. I've a tintype of my grandfather as a boy, he born in 1882.

And early 20th Century. I have several tintypes of WWI Doughboys, and one of my grandmother taken in 1918. If you're a fan of silent films, Buster Keaton's The Cameraman, filmed in 1928, has him working as a street-corner tintype photographer. If you look in the back of a Popular Mechanics from the same time period you'll find some "get rich quick" ads for 1-minute tintype cameras, with which you can make $15-$35 a day targeting tourists!

V/R,
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[The Egyptian Homeguard]

Re: Very interesting photo

True enough, about the tintypes being around after the War, I have several family ones from the 1910's all id'ed positively… by other images and my greatgrandmother when she was still alive. They are of her father and motherand aunts uncles etc...