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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.