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<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nA carpenter saws a plank.<\/p>\n
Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Herbert Mitchell<\/p>\n
The tintype photographic process was patented in 1856, and its popularity swept through the United States in the following years. As the least expensive form of photographic portraiture, tintypes constituted most American\u2019s first experience with photography or the portrait studio.<\/p>\n
These photographs were sturdy, long-lasting and quick to produce, only taking a few minutes to shoot, develop and deliver. Because there was no photographic negative incorporated into the process, tintypes were unreproducible \u2014 each image was entirely unique. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n More about Work<\/a>, History<\/a>, Us World<\/a>, Us<\/a>, and Jobs<\/a> A carpenter saws a plank. Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Herbert Mitchell The tintype photographic process was patented in 1856, and its popularity swept through the United States in the following years. As the least expensive form of … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[874,805,865,732,3278],"class_list":["post-4255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-history","tag-jobs","tag-us","tag-us-world","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"