One Room School House with Students and Teachers, 19th C. Outdoor Tintype Dodecagon pin cusion The eyes on the wonderfully

The eyes on the wonderfully carved

Marvelous faces with fabulous expressions

I have up to see Aunt Masus

bright and crisp and beautiful

One Room School House with Students and Teachers, 19th C. Outdoor Tintype Dodecagon pin cusion The eyes on the wonderfullyI believe this tintype dates to the 1870s or so, based especially on the clothing of the adults and, as far as I've been able to determine in researching, it is a fairly rare one; I've turned up a good number of school photos taken outside one room school houses produced as cabinet cards paper printed photos, but tintype examples seem very few and far between. Quite a wonderful array of faces and postures and attitudes I think, with what seems to be a