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Ancestry/Genealogy

Warpy

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20. Tintype photography didn't come into widespread enough use

Reply to EYESORE 9001 (Reply #19)

Mon Oct 27, 2025, 03:12 PM

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until the 1850s or so, and then it was mostly the middle and upper middle classes who could afford it. Most immigrants paid for the cheapest passage they could find, saving any money and valuables they had to help them start a new life here. They wouldn't have wasted it on photography even if it had been in wider use.

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