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English: Tintype of James B. Beals and family, with telescope, lobster, and clamshell, circa 1872-1874   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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English: Johnson's National Gallery
Title
English: Tintype of James B. Beals and family, with telescope, lobster, and clamshell, circa 1872-1874
Description
English:

Unstandardized plate size tintype on chocolate plate. Mounted in a shiny light blue card stock "Philadelphia Carte Envelope" with oval window and decorated with printed red design, backed with thin lavender-colored paper. Manufactured likely by Nixon & Stokes (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) circa 1870-1880. Front of lavender flap depicts black-stamped image of two Victorian-dressed long-haired girls peering into a mirror with the name of the photographic studio penned on the back, reading "Johnson's National Gallery, 809 Pa. Ave., Washingt'n D. C." "James B. Beals," "Katherine Beals," and "Caroline Beals" are the three legible names listed of six penned in cursive (pencil) on the interior flap of the lavender colored-paper. "James B. Beals" is written in pencil on the backside of the card mount. PH Coll 500.TN13

The chocolate plate emerged on the tintype scene in June of 1869 in Worcester, Massachusetts under the manufacturing of Phoenix/Phoenix Plate Company. An independent U.S. patent was issued in March of 1870 for the production of chocolate plates, in which the iron plate was coated with an India red and linseed oil varnish. Chocolate plates were highly successful, as they were heralded to provide "a more lifelike appearance" to flesh and provide "more delicate shading" to drapery
Date circa between 1872 and 1874
date QS:P571,+1872-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1872-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1874-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium
English: 2-1/2 x 3-1/2 in.
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
1667
Source
English: Portraits Collection
Permission
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Public domain
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.
Order Number
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POR1623

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