Gem tintype of a blind man

Tintype

Accession Number: 2003.1

Description: The tintype shows a head-and-shoulders portrait of a blind man. His cheeks are tinted pink. The tintype is mounted in a white carte-sized sleeve with an oval opening decorated in embossed trim. Sleeve has yellowed; slight foxing.

Medium: Sheet iron; paper

Print Size: 7/8 x 5/8 in. visible image ; 4 x 2

Date: after 1860

Photographer: unknown

Subjects: Adult blind. Photographs.