A photograph taken as a positive on a thin tin plate:
| Example | Meaning |
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 |