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Six Degrees of the Civil War:  Tintype Photographs in the Digital Age

Six Degrees of the Civil War: Tintype Photographs in the Digital Age

In December of 2015, Philly.com’s staff writer Jeff Gammage caught on to a photography trend taking the urban hipster world by storm: the revival of 1860s tintypes. Tintype pictures of average people, well-known folk singers, and even Kevin Bacon from cutting edge dark rooms are fetching high prices. Gammage referred ...
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