Tin Types #3

Since very few of the tin types I have are labeled in any way, it's nice to have one that provides an exact location. Island Park was an amusement park located in Auburn, New York on Owasco Lake, one of upstate New York's Finger Lakes. The park is now known as Emerson Park.  The dazed pilot looks like a cross between Dustin Hoffman and Cary Grant.

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

These other photos are nameless, but lovely in a mysterious way.

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.