What is a tintype picture? Tintype, also called ferrotype,positive photograph produced by applying a collodion-nitrocellulose solution to a thin, black-enameled metal plate immediately before exposure. How were carte de visite made? Carte-de-visite, originally, a calling card, especiallyone with a...
I’m pretty sure if you had looked up the wordreclusein a Delta dictionary, you would have found a tintype photograph of Issaquena. Resembling an Indian, she always wore men’s clothes and fastened her long hair in a single braid down her back. Her house tottered on rickety stilts near...