Working Stiffs : Occupational Portraits in the Age of Tintypes

Working Stiffs : Occupational Portraits in the Age of Tintypes

Editorial Reviews Book Description Working Stiffs explores the historical significance of the tintype, a cheap, fast, easy-to-make, practically indestructible type of photograph that became enormously popular among the working class in the late nineteenth century. This collection exhibits more than eighty examples of a specific kind of tintype occupational portraits, photographs of working people with the tools of their trade. In a detailed historical examination, Michael L. Carlebach finds that these often-dismissed photographs reveal a great deal about late nineteenth-century values.

Working Stiffs : Occupational Portraits in the Age of Tintypes,Michael Carlebach,Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press,1588340678,19th century,Architectural & Industrial,Documentary Photo Collections,History,Photo Essays,Photoessays & Documentaries,Photography,Portrait photography,Portraits,Portraiture,Subjects & Themes - Portraits,Tintype,United States,United States - 19th Century,Working class,History / General,Photographs: portraits,Social history,USA,c 1800 to c 1900

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