The Iron Plate in American Photography: The Tintype as Art 1860-1880

A collection of nineteenth-century tintypes in the collection of the author, with an introduction concerning the tintype as art.

The Origins of American Photography: From Daguerreotype to Dry-plate, 1839-1885
By Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Mo.), Keith F. Davis
In this text, Keith F. Davis examines photography's social history and aesthetic development in an era of rapid national growth.
The American Tintype
By Floyd Rinhart, Marion Rinhart, Robert W. Wagner
Two collectors of 19th-century photographia and a professor of photography, theater, and cinema (Ohio State U.) explore the uniquely American form of photography also known as melainotype and the ferrotype....
Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography: A-I, index
By John Hannavy
Armand Dandoy married Charlotte De Coster (1831-1912), known as Caroline, on 24 October 1867. She was the sister of Charles De Coster (1827-1879), prominent man of letters and member of the same loose-knit group of Namur artists as ...
An American Century of Photography: From Dry-plate to Digital
By Keith F. Davis, Hallmark Photographic Collection
An American Century of Photography represents the first comprehensive study of this vast and important subject from the mid-1880s to the present. Lavishly illustrated, and printed to the highest technical...
The Tintype in America, 1856-1880
By Janice Gayle Schimmelman
The book is a history of the ferrotype, or tintype, in American photography, from its origin in the 1850s until 1880. The heart of the book is the extended accounts...