Tintype photo of Ambers Thompson. This photo was in an album owned by my Great-Grandmother, Mary Elizabeth (Gleaton) Glover Johnson. She was the daughter of Daniel Forest Gleaton and Rossie Ida (Thompson) Gleaton. I do not know how Ambers is related to Rossie.
Tintype photos, also known as ferrotypes, are a type of early photographic process that was popular in the mid-to-late 19th century.
They were photos made on thin sheets of iron, not tin, that were coated with a dark enamel and were widely used from the 1850s through the early 1900s, especially in portrait studios, fairs, and by st...