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link: "https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/tgm010835/",
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Tintypes
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Term: Tintypes
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- Scope Note:
- Direct-image photographs in which the collodion negative supported by a dark-lacquered thin iron sheet appears as a positive image. Popular mid-1850s through 1860s; in use through 1930s.
- Used For:
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Collodion positive photographs
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Ferrotypes
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Iron photographs
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Melainotypes
- Broader Term(s):
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- Notes:
- Catalogers Note: Used in a note under PHOTOGRAPHS.
- Former Usage Note: Formerly TGMI term & TGMII term.
- Former Control Number: gmgpc001079
- Former Control Number: lctgm010804
- Term Type Category: Subject (MARC 150/650)
- Term Type Category: Genre/Format (MARC 155/655)
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