A photo of John Robert Banks. He was a very young man in this tintype picture - called Johnny his entire life. Married Rosa Lee.
Born and died in Coweta County, GA
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...
See family photos of Georgia taken over the years shared by members of the community.
Georgia is the largest of the U.S. states east of the Mississippi River and the youngest of the 13 former English colonies (joined the US on January 2, 1788), is known as the Peach State or the Empire...