Bidspirit auction | 19th C. Tintype Portrait Photographs


19th C. Tintype Portrait Photographs - A collection of nineteen nineteenth-century tintype (ferrotype) photographs depicting various American sitters. The assortment includes a wide range of subject matter, featuring family groups, individual portraits of men and women, children, and infants in period Victorian attire. Notable plates include a group portrait of three women holding farmhouse tools such as a rake and a large spoon, several seated portraits of men in formal suits, and a large format portrait of a woman with distinct hand-tinted.