Man in Plaid, 19th C. Tintype of an Earlier Ambrotype (I believe) press center oil can my gut says maybe 1860s-70s

my gut says maybe 1860s-70s or so

Each opening is 2 3/4”w x 4”h

and good all the way around I think

for when one might needs a bit of extra fortitude to stop beyond

threaded with elastic inside

Man in Plaid, 19th C. Tintype of an Earlier Ambrotype (I believe) press center oil can my gut says maybe 1860s-70sI can't get enough of photographs that speak to changing modes and mechanisms of representation, reproduction, preservation, etc etc. a contemporary conversation, but certainly not a new one, and so much of it rolled into the history of photography. And so my favorite photographs are photographs of photographs, or photographs of paintings photographs as means of preserving earlier representations and ushering them forward, often through translation