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The American tintype /

Rinhart, Floyd.

The American tintype / Floyd Rinhart, Marion Rinhart, and Robert W. Wagner. - Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c1999. - xiii, 258 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. (some col.); 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-251) and index.

Foreword / W. Robert Nix. Pt. I. The History and the Process : 1. Preface to the Tintype -- 2. The Ohio Pioneers of the Tintype -- 3. Making the Tintype -- 4. Finishing, Coloring, and Advertising the Tintype -- 5. Tintype Formats and Mountings -- 6. The Traveling Tintypist -- 7. The Industry, the Amateur, and the Art. Pt. II. A Victorian Family Tintype Album: Glimpses of American Life, 1856-1900 : 8. Man's World -- 9. Woman's World -- 10. Digressions and Diversions -- 11. Love, Marriage, and Children -- 12. Family and Group Portraits -- 13. On Vacation -- 14. Fakes, Forgeries, and Precious Phantoms. App. 1. Floyd and Marion Rinhart on Collecting, Preserving, and Enjoying Tintypes. App. 2. Tintype Patents. App. 3. Standard Tintype Formats, 1856-1930. App. 4. Tintype Plate Makers, 1856-1904. App. 5. Biographies of American Tintypists.

0814208061 (cloth : alk. paper)

98049828


Tintype--History--United States--19th century.
Photography--History--United States--19th century.

NR375 / .R56 1999 TR375 / .R56 1999

772/.14/097309034

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