Mystery photo #12 is a tintype from Aunt Ellen's album. I have it labeled 'Aunt Charlotte' but I cannot remember who said it was of her. I knew her grandaughter, Laura Maloy. I don't know whether she guessed at this or if it is really Aunt Charlotte. Maybe I'll find my notes on it somewhere...
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...
Family History & Photos of Hendrick Van Tassel, William Gerard, & John Mc Robbie of Jefferson Co, NY - John Markland Aldridge (TN), Stephen Aldred, Zebedee Markland, Oscar Moore, Stephen Beach, Ignatius Ross (OH), John Hughes Holmes(CA), Clarissa Laine (IO), Samuel Jackson Lewis (CA), Euphemia Jackson Braden, James Barker (IL), Anthony Keithley Brinson (IN), Joel Lefferage Copher(IN), Martha Love, Cassandra Le Sueur, Sarah Foley (VA).