Tintype Pendant, 1863
THF154719 / Tintype Pendant, 1863
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Artifact Overview
The development of the tintype with its increased durability over daguerreotypes and ambrotypes lent itself to creating mementoes and keepsakes, housed in a variety of cases including jewelry. This particular pendant could be a piece of mourning jewelry or it could have been a keepsake given to a loved one by a soldier going off to war.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Pendant (Jewelry)
Date Made
1863
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
00.3.14792
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Abalone shell
Metal
Glass (Material)
Technique
Tintype (Process)
Dimensions
Height: 1.75 in
Width: 1.5 in
Inscriptions
verso, frame:
1863
scratched on back of image almost illegibly:
Charles Myin(?)
1863
Nashville Tenn.
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Tintypes, the popular "instant photographs" of the 19th century, could be produced in a matter of minutes at a price most people could afford. Tintypes democratized photography. Beginning in the mid-1850s, they gave more people than ever before the chance to have a real likeness of themselves--capturing unique glimpses of how everyday Americans looked and lived.