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With few exceptions, the old photographs I have are from upstate New York and neighboring areas of Pennsylvania. And although we don't know where this child's photo was taken, there is a notation on the back that says: PTM age 6 after Typhoid
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These other photos are nameless, but lovely in a mysterious way.
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Here's a photo taken by W.M. Hillard of Scranton, Pennsylvania, but we don't know who the man is. Most of the other tintypes were probably also presented in paper folders like this one or in cardboard frames. They likely disintegrated over time or became soiled and were discarded.
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I have really enjoyed your tin type entries, these and the priors. Even though I collect all types of old photos, here is just something about tin types that draws me to them, I don't know if it's the shawdows or the mystery but I keep buying them! And you are right, the guy in the first photo does look like Dustin Hoffman!!
ReplyDeleteAnother great collection, the baby's pram is very fancy, very nice. They must have got the amusement park photo as a souvenir, I have a couple of tintypes (very small) which are groups at the seaside, must have been a lucrative business. It's amazing they have lasted so long really, some of mine are looking a bit fragile in places.
ReplyDeleteLove the tintypes. And yes, that pilot does look dazed! Funny...
ReplyDeleteBeautiful images
ReplyDeleteThe tin types seem to have a more dramatic feel. They are very beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThe child in #3 looks more serious and perhaps older than his parents... The embossed frame of #2 is pretty, but feels sorta creepy combined with the somewhat ghostly image of the girl. And the woman in #4 appears to have an unusually long neck!
ReplyDeleteMysterious is the right word. It 's like the historic visual is trying hard to be seen in the future, today.
ReplyDelete#1: The lady at the left and (especially) the man at the right don't seem to have a jolly good time ...
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