In a message dated 3/31/2005 10:34:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, OHGALLIA-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > We have a small book of about 10 tintype pictures that are unlabeled. Like > you, we know they are family we just don't know who. I plan on scanning > them in the computer and enlarging them to see if I can compare them to > other pictures and get a clue. The first page in the book is an index and > there is writing in pencil but it is so faded you can't read it at all you > can just see that something is barely written. > > Does anyone know what year tintypes were in use? > From: "Sharon Hobart" <slhobart@sbcglobal.net> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- Tintypes were in use from around 1856 up into the 1900s. You can find out more by typing in Tintypes to Google and they will have lots of information about early photographic processes. Tom Powell