What are tintypes?
Ben Hodges
Everett, Washington
Photographic history began in 1839, with the daguerreotype. Other processes, however, had been experimented on for some 30 years. The durable and inexpensive tintype, patented in 1856, evolved from some of those processes.
The tintype was also called the ferrotype, for ferrous, the chemical name for iron. That’s an important fact—the photos were not put on tin, but on iron coated with a black lacquer that developed the image and p
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