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tintype

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Definition of tintype

as in daguerreotype

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Recent Examples of tintype The image could be a tintype from a late-Victorian play about a confidence man who preys on wealthy young widows. — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 14 July 2025 The tintype format was introduced by chemist and physicist Hamilton Smith in 1856. — Kaila Philo, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2025 Also on display is a tintype of an unidentified African American woman, taken by an unidentified artist around 1865. — Kaila Philo, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2025 This is especially evident as the show builds from format to format—including tintypes, ambrotypes, paper prints, and stereographs, each an improvement on the last where the maker’s control was concerned. — Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 24 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for tintype

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Nadar deployed Balzac’s reported initial mistrust and later acquiescence to the daguerreotype as an allegory of larger significance for understanding the history of invention.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
First observed on Aug 19, 1991, the day commemorates the invention of the daguerreotype, a photographic process developed in 1837.

— Brittney Melton, NPR, 30 July 2025

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The victim said Haywood and the victim took overnight trips together and exchanged nude photographs.

— Bryan Lynn, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026
The photographs contained in the Farm Security Administration collection, held at the Library of Congress, depict scarcity, despair, desolation, and suffering but also hope, resilience, and, later, progress in response to government intervention.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 Aug. 2026

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Larger apertures gather more light, while monochrome cameras with filters help tease out subtle banding.

— Damian Peach, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2026
The house has been given a makeover that combines the rustic charm of its rough stone walls and heavy oak beams with Japanese minimalism, in the form of sliding screen doors and monochrome ceramics.

— Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 4 Aug. 2026

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