Working Stiffs: Occupational Portraits in the Age of Tintypes

By Michael L. Carlebach

Book Overview

The tintype, patented in 1856, was a cheap, fast, easy-to-make, practically indestructible type of photograph that became enormously popular among the working class in the late nineteenth century. For... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1588340678
• ISBN13: 9781588340672
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.2"