Tintype of an unknown boy from the Logan, UT or Preston, ID area. The boy appears to be about 16 to 19 years old. The photo probably dates from the
The tintype photo was bought at a garage sale in Logan, UT. It was the only tintype in a box of misc. items. All items where from the Cache Valley area, which covers from Logan, UT to Preston, ID.
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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...