Definition of Tintype
1. n. Same as Ferrotype.
Definition of Tintype
1. Noun. An early, remarkably durable form of photograph (technically a photographic negative), printed on a tin plate, then varnished. ¹
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Definition of Tintype
1. a kind of photograph [n -S]
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tintype
Literary usage of Tintype
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1. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1914)
"How often it occurs that a tintype is the only portrait that remains of some person
... Who has not in their photographic career had a tintype brought to be ..."
2. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1901)
"He turned to a cabinet and from a drawer took a small tintype. ... The tintype
is perhaps the most exasperating picture that comes into the studio, ..."
3. The American Amateur Photographer (1898)
"They will not take to wet collodion, the process generally employed in tintype
work, but very good results may be got on dry tintype ..."
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