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. This may have been Rossie's uncle.
People in photo include: William Thompson
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. I have other Half siblings out there somewhere