Stuhr Museum Weekly PhotographFeatured in the Grand Island Daily Independent

Tintypes and the Civil WarThese four unidentified young military cadets pose for the photographer apparently reading letters from home. This photograph is a tintype, also known as a ferrotype (proper name since there is no tin) or melainotype. Tintypes, patented by Hamilton Smith in 1856, are thin negatives that when supported by a dark lacquered thin iron sheet appear as positive images.

Stuhr Museum Weekly Photograph
Featured in the Grand Island Daily Independent

Tintypes and the Civil War
These four unidentified young military cadets pose for the photographer apparently reading letters from home. This photograph is a tintype, also known as a ferrotype (proper name since there is no tin) or melainotype. Tintypes, patented by Hamilton Smith in 1856, are thin negatives that when supported by a dark lacquered thin iron sheet appear as positive images.

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