Tintype

The film that was inside the camera that you just bought holds images of days gone by.
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RonB
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The first time that I ever handled these type of photos, found in the basement of a friends house that her Mother and Dad lived in for many years. They have since passed on.

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Wow! What a find! I'll bet there's a museum someplace that would love to have those.


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They're cool!

I like the fact that there were so many people living in the house that it developed a lean.... ;-)


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Ha!

Great pictures, every one. That one with the crowd is likely a church; Methodist churches in particular had Men's and Women's entrances at the front.


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