Tintype rescued from an estate sale in Longview TX. Other pictures in that collection were labeled as descendents of Stephen and Mary [McKay] Penn, or W. L. Pickens or Newton and Martha [Dalrymple] Patrick of Alabama and Hopkins Co., TX.
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...