This is a tintype photo that was in an album belonging to my Great-Grandmother, Mary Elizabeth (Gleaton) Glover Johnson. Mary's parents were Daniel Forest Gleaton and Rossie Ida (Thompson) Gleaton.
The only name written underneath the photo was, "Rape." I do know that "Rape" is a surname and I believe this is another photo of N.F. Rape.
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...