The reverse of this photo sats 'Georgie Goodwin, my cousin'. The person who wrote this had the last name of Rice, as another photo in the same handwriting says 'Mayo Rice, my brother'. Gem tintype.
People in photo include: George 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...