Tintype of Seated African American Gentleman [n.d.]

dc.date.accessioned	2011-12-16T16:25:16Z
dc.date.available	2011-12-16T16:25:16Z
dc.date.issued	2011-12-16
dc.description	An unidentified young African American gentleman sits cross-legged on a decorative wooden stool in this small black and white tintype photograph. The date and name of the photographer are unknown. Hand-colored red detailing is visible on the curtain cord and the tablecloth. This tintype was in the possession of Iris Sloman Bell, of St. Catharines, Ontario. Relatives of the Sloman - Bell families were former American slaves who settled in Canada."Tintypes were the invention of Prof. Hamilton Smith of Ohio. They begin as thin sheets of iron, covered with a layer of black paint. This serves as the base for the same iodized collodion coating and silver nitrate bath used in the ambrotype process. First made in 1856, millions were produced well into the twentieth century. When tintypes were finished in the same sorts of mats and cases used for ambrotypes, it can be almost impossible to distinguish which process was used without removing the image to examine the substrate." Source: American Museum of Photography http://www.photographymuseum.com/primer.html	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10464/3643
dc.subject	African Americans	en_US
dc.subject	African Canadians	en_US
dc.subject	Black History	en_US
dc.subject	Photographs	en_US
dc.subject	Tintypes	en_US
dc.title	Tintype of Seated African American Gentleman [n.d.]	en_US
dc.type	text	en_US

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