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Tintype camera
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This example of a four-lens tintype camera with
bellows, fixed front, and rear focusing is attributed
to the maker Benton Pixley Stebbins (1825–1906).
Tintype photography became popular in the mid-1850s
with the advent of wet-plate collodion photography
and continued being produced into the early twentieth
century. Cheaper and more durable than the earlier
daguerreotypes or the ambrotype (glass) photographs,
the tintype was a photograph made on japanned iron
coated with collodion. Tintypes were very popular
during the Civil War-era, providing soldiers and
their distant families with images of their loved
ones to carry with them. This camera allowed four
of the same images to be made at one time on one
sensitized metal plate. The plate was then cut to
provide four individual photographs. |
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Division of Information, Technology and Society,
Photographic History
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian
Institution
Behring Center
Gift of A. C. Stebbins
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