On the reverse of this gem tintype reads 'Edwin Goodwin, my uncle'. The person who wrote that had the last name of Rice, based on other photos.
People in photo include: Edwin Goodwin
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...