{"id":398,"date":"2009-06-29T20:50:07","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T20:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/piqueoftheweek.wordpress.com\/?p=398"},"modified":"2009-06-29T20:50:07","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T20:50:07","slug":"teeny-tiny-tintype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2009\/06\/29\/teeny-tiny-tintype\/","title":{"rendered":"Teeny tiny tintype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is Emily Burt Bradford, grandmother and namesake of Emily Burt Holmes Marvin, from whose family papers it comes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_399\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-399\" style=\"width: 390px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-399\" title=\"peo-09-0010-mc43\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/peo-09-0010-mc43.jpg\" alt=\"Emily Burt Bradford, no date\" width=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/peo-09-0010-mc43.jpg 469w, https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/peo-09-0010-mc43-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emily Burt Bradford, no date<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It is a tintype, an early form of photography.\u00a0 The images on tintypes, like daguerrotypes and ambrotypes, were unique photographs captured directly, meaning there was no intervening negative. The underlying support for the image is also different: tintypes were &#8220;printed&#8221; on thin pieces of iron or steel, darkened by paint, enamel or lacquer. Also called ferrotypes or melainotypes, they were more durable than other early photographic images, which were produced on glass.<\/p>\n<p>This particular image has no date, but tintypes were common from the1850s into the 1930s.\u00a0 And this one is small.\u00a0 How small exactly?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_400\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-400\" style=\"width: 390px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-400\" title=\"peo-09-0010-mc43WithStamp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/peo-09-0010-mc43withstamp.jpg\" alt=\"Emily Burt Bradford, with stamp, no date\" width=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/peo-09-0010-mc43withstamp.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/peo-09-0010-mc43withstamp-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-400\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emily Burt Bradford, with stamp, no date<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This small.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Emily Burt Bradford, grandmother and namesake of Emily Burt Holmes Marvin, from whose family papers it comes. It is a tintype, an early form of photography.\u00a0 The images on tintypes, like daguerrotypes and ambrotypes, were unique photographs captured directly, meaning there was no intervening negative. The underlying support for the image is also &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2009\/06\/29\/teeny-tiny-tintype\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Teeny tiny tintype&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}