tintype

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A copy of a tintype of Corporal Nailer of the 13th Pennsylvania Cavalry. The original photograph was made between 1861 and 1865.

Etymology

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From tin +‎ type.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tintype (plural tintypes)

  1. An early, remarkably durable form of photograph (technically a photographic negative), printed on a tin plate, then varnished.
    • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
      She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.
    • 1913, Booth Tarkington, The Flirt, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 70:
      There were photographs everywhere: photographs framed and unframed; photographs large and photographs small, the fresh and the faded; tintypes, kodaks, “full lengths,” “cabinets,” groups—every type of photograph; []
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Against the Day”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 885:
      They'll show you tintypes of the kids more often than not, hell, they love em chavalitos.

Derived terms

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Verb

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tintype (third-person singular simple present tintypes, present participle tintyping, simple past and past participle tintyped)

  1. (transitive) To produce a tintype image of.