Working Stiffs - Occupational Portraits in the Age of Tintypes by Michael L. Carlebach
The tintype, patented in 1856, was a cheap, fast, easy-to-make, practically indestructible type of photograph that became enormously popular among the working class in the late nineteenth century. For common laborers and their families, the opportunity to join the ranks of those who owned pictures of family and friends--the upper classes--was momentous. This collection exhibits more than eighty examples of a specific kind of tintype: occupational portraits, and photographs of working people with the tools of their trade. Michael L. Carlebach examines the historical significance of these tintypes and finds that they reveal a great deal about late nineteenth-century values.
This hardcover book is in very good condition with minor imperfections to the dust jacket. Pages in very good condition.
ISBN 10: 1588340678 / ISBN 13: 9781588340672
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Publishing Date: 2002