Tintypes
Tintype Photo Restoration
In the 1850s, as an improvement over the daguerreotype, Adolphe-Alexandre Martin invented tintype photography, a more affordable and portable photo process available to the masses and was used extensively to document the Civil War.
A tintype, also known as melainotype or ferrotype, creates a photographic image on a thin sheet of metal or iron that has been coated with a dark lacquer or enamel.
The tintypes of the Civil War showed the nation what war looked like.
Below are some samples of Tintype restoration.
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