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Tin type

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1864, OED Evaluation: N/A

A photograph taken as a positive on a thin tin plate:

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Well my father used to take tin type pictures. The old days, they were tin type. They were um- the man would stand on the street and he'd have a um a cover over his head and he would snap a picture and immediately develop it and um he- my father used to do it.
an old fashioned photograph in which an image is created on a metal surface