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- Greenfield Village Tintype Studio - Tintypes were a popular type of mid-1800s "wet-plate" photography. This studio was built in 1929 in Greenfield Village and a tintypist and Ford Motor Company employee, Charles Tremear, was hired to create tintypes for Greenfield Village visitors. In this studio, in addition to Village visitors, Tremear made portraits of many celebrities, including Thomas Edison, Joe Louis and Walt Disney.
- October 20, 1929
- Collections - Artifact
Greenfield Village Tintype Studio
Tintypes were a popular type of mid-1800s "wet-plate" photography. This studio was built in 1929 in Greenfield Village and a tintypist and Ford Motor Company employee, Charles Tremear, was hired to create tintypes for Greenfield Village visitors. In this studio, in addition to Village visitors, Tremear made portraits of many celebrities, including Thomas Edison, Joe Louis and Walt Disney.
- Tintype Pendant, 1863 - 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.
- 1863
- Collections - Artifact
Tintype Pendant, 1863
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.
- Errtee Button Tintype Camera, circa 1912 -
- circa 1912
- Collections - Artifact
Errtee Button Tintype Camera, circa 1912
- Button Tintype Camera, 1900-1920 -
- 1900-1920
- Collections - Artifact
Button Tintype Camera, 1900-1920
- The Tintype Studio in Greenfield Village, October 1929 - On October 21, 1929, Henry Ford hosted an event, Light's Golden Jubilee, which celebrated the 50th anniversary of Thomas Edison's invention of a practical incandescent lamp. The event also served as the official dedication of The Edison Institute, Ford's museum complex named in honor of his friend. At the last minute, Ford wanted a tintype studio added to the village. This building was built and furnished in one day!
- October 01, 1929
- Collections - Artifact
The Tintype Studio in Greenfield Village, October 1929
On October 21, 1929, Henry Ford hosted an event, Light's Golden Jubilee, which celebrated the 50th anniversary of Thomas Edison's invention of a practical incandescent lamp. The event also served as the official dedication of The Edison Institute, Ford's museum complex named in honor of his friend. At the last minute, Ford wanted a tintype studio added to the village. This building was built and furnished in one day!
- Edsel, Eleanor, Clara and Henry Ford with Guests at Tintype Studio in Greenfield Village, 1929-1930 - Just before the official dedication of his historical village in October 1929, Henry Ford decided to add a tintype photographic studio. Ford's staff worked feverishly to complete the building--designed to look like a small tintype studio from the 1870s and 1880s--in one day! Not long after it opened, Ford posed with family and friends in the Greenfield Village Tintype Studio for this group portrait.
- 1929-1930
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Edsel, Eleanor, Clara and Henry Ford with Guests at Tintype Studio in Greenfield Village, 1929-1930
Just before the official dedication of his historical village in October 1929, Henry Ford decided to add a tintype photographic studio. Ford's staff worked feverishly to complete the building--designed to look like a small tintype studio from the 1870s and 1880s--in one day! Not long after it opened, Ford posed with family and friends in the Greenfield Village Tintype Studio for this group portrait.
- Tintype Stand, circa 1880 -
- circa 1880
- Collections - Artifact
Tintype Stand, circa 1880
- Photographer outside His Tintype Studio, circa 1890 -
- circa 1890
- Collections - Artifact
Photographer outside His Tintype Studio, circa 1890
- The Tintype Studio in Greenfield Village, October 1929 - On October 21, 1929, Henry Ford hosted an event, Light's Golden Jubilee, which celebrated the 50th anniversary of Thomas Edison's invention of a practical incandescent lamp. The event also served as the official dedication of The Edison Institute, Ford's museum complex named in honor of his friend. At the last minute, Ford wanted a tintype studio added to the village. This building was built and furnished in one day!
- October 01, 1929
- Collections - Artifact
The Tintype Studio in Greenfield Village, October 1929
On October 21, 1929, Henry Ford hosted an event, Light's Golden Jubilee, which celebrated the 50th anniversary of Thomas Edison's invention of a practical incandescent lamp. The event also served as the official dedication of The Edison Institute, Ford's museum complex named in honor of his friend. At the last minute, Ford wanted a tintype studio added to the village. This building was built and furnished in one day!
- Greenfield Village Tintype Studio, circa 1934 - Irving Bacon, a Ford Motor Company employee and Henry Ford's personal artist, created pen-and-ink drawings to illustrate guidebooks for the Edison Institute Museum and Greenfield Village (now The Henry Ford) when they officially opened to the public in 1933. An illustrated souvenir guidebook helped visitors navigate the exhibits and grounds. Ford also used these drawings in other company publications.
- circa 1934
- Collections - Artifact
Greenfield Village Tintype Studio, circa 1934
Irving Bacon, a Ford Motor Company employee and Henry Ford's personal artist, created pen-and-ink drawings to illustrate guidebooks for the Edison Institute Museum and Greenfield Village (now The Henry Ford) when they officially opened to the public in 1933. An illustrated souvenir guidebook helped visitors navigate the exhibits and grounds. Ford also used these drawings in other company publications.