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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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The Art Nouveau furniture, the 18th-century Worcester porcelain, and the photography collection (with daguerreotypes, Civil War albumen prints, 20th-century images, and portraits) all beg for your attention.

— Carolanne Griffith Roberts, Southern Living, 18 Aug. 2026
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

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The lawsuit further alleged that Trader Joe’s put its crustless PB&Js peanut in packaging that too closely resembled the coloring of an Uncrustables box and featured a similar photograph of a sandwich with a bite taken out of one side.

— Dee-Ann Durbin, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026
Reddington showed the jury a photograph of the Clancy family, looking happy, and a second one of Lindsay Clancy in the hospital.

— Michael Casey, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026

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On September 1, Claire Stoermer shared a rare childhood photo of her daughter to celebrate the milestone.

— Hannah Malach, InStyle, 2 Sep. 2026
Sunil Pandey Speaking with NBC News in Pokhara, Nabin Karki, a superintendent of police, said authorities were collecting DNA samples and displaying photos of the bodies found in hopes that family members might be able to identify them.

— Surendra Phuyal, NBC news, 1 Sep. 2026

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Hsu’s argument for why the near-monochrome restaurant doesn’t go flat is that the palette itself runs on tension, with the statement-making veined marble behind the point-of-sale area set against rough plaster walls.

— Alexis Benveniste, Architectural Digest, 27 Aug. 2026
Larger apertures gather more light, while monochrome cameras with filters help tease out subtle banding.

— Damian Peach, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2026

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