A photo of an unknown family - tintype. In the main family album - Haight, Butler, Hargis, Mackey, am searching in my tree to see if there is anyway I may deduce who they could be. Maybe as far back as Polhemus, Stone, Barnes, Wellington, Applegate, so many more... But if anyone happens to be familiar or even if you have these folks in another photo, it may help deduce who they are by which lines you are more closely related to.
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...
My mother is Pamela Thompson. My dad is Richard William Russell. My mom grew up in Fenwick Michigan. My dad grew up in Hart Michigan. They had 2 kids together. Living in Michigan.