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Tintype

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History of Tintype Photography | The Henry Ford's Innovation Nation

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TinType Photography Process HD

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Forget Your Filters - The Original Method of Tintype Photography Still Wins

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What is Tintype Photography? | Innovation Nation

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Introducing the Tintype Studio, makers of unique photographic art.

A tintype, also known as a melainotype or ferrotype, is a photograph made by creating a direct positive on a thin sheet of metal coated with a dark lacquer or enamel and used as the support for the photographic emulsion. Tintypes enjoyed their widest use during the 1860s and 1870s, but lesser use of the medium persisted into the early 20th century and it has been revived as a novelty and fine art form in the 21st.