Working Stiffs : Occupational Portraits in the Age of Tintypes by Carlebach, Michael L - 2002

Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2002-09-20. Hardcover. Good.

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Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2002-09-16. hardcover. Very Good. 6x1x9. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good dust jacket. Free of any markings and no writings inside. Clear Text. Minor shelf-wear. For any additional information or pictures, please inquire.

mint oversize hc, filed with Working...

Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2002-09-16. hardcover. Very Good. 5x1x8. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good dust jacket. Free of any markings and no writings inside. Clear Text. Minor shelf-wear. For any additional information or pictures, please inquire.

Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2002. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 144 pages. The tintype, patented in 1856, was a cheap, fast, easy-to-make, practically indestructible type of photograph that became enormously popular among the working class in the late nineteenth century. For common laborers and their families, the opportunity to join the ranks of those who owned pictures of family and friends--the upper classes--was momentous. 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. Michael L. Carlebach examines the historical significance of these tintypes and finds that they reveal a great deal about late nineteenth-century values. The subjects of these images are plumbers proudly holding their wrenches and pipe cutters, carpenters with their saws and lathing hatchets, textile workers with their spindles and yarn, icemen with their tongs.… Read More

Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2002-09-17. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!