Mrs. Horace Bemis, ca. 1860

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Mrs. Horace Bemis, ca. 1860

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This is a tintype portrait of Mrs. Horace Bemis, made about 1860. She is possibly Mary E. Bemis of West Gardiner, married to Horace Bemis, a farmer. In 1860, the couple had three children, Helen, Horace, and Lucius.

Tintypes, in which the image is made on sheets of thin, blackened iron, were a cheaper alternative to daguerreotypes and ambrotypes. They enjoyed a brief period of popularity around the Civil War.

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  • Title: Mrs. Horace Bemis, ca. 1860
  • Creation Date: circa 1860
  • Subject Date: circa 1860
  • Location: ME
  • Media: Tintype
  • Local Code: 2008.377.039
  • Collection: Vickery-Shettleworth collection of early Maine photography
  • Object Type: Image

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