Simon Wing
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Simon Wing was an American daguerreotypist, camera inventor and socialist politician. He is best remembered as the first candidate of the Socialist Labor Party of America for President of the United S
Simon Wing
Wing later in life
Photographer with a Simon Wing camera c. 1860
Washington Street in Boston, with "S. Wing's Ferrotype" sign, 1872
Tintype
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A tintype, also known as a melanotype or ferrotype, is a photograph made by creating a direct positive on a thin sheet of metal, colloquially called 'tin', coated with a dark lacquer or enamel and use
Simon Wing
…President of the United States, running for that office in 1892. Simon Wing was born in Saint Albans, Maine on August 29, 1826. As a photographer and ferrotypist, he kept a studio on Washington Street in Boston. Wing spent most of his life living in the town of Watertown, Massachusetts. Wing was an active member…
Tintype of two girls in front of a painted background of the Cliff House and Seal Rocks in San Francisco, c. 1900
Studio tent of ferrotypist J. Q. Galusha, 12,7 × 17,7 cm, USA, c. 1880–1900
Tintype portraits in an album, circa late 1800s-early 1900s
The only surviving portrait of Billy the Kid, Fort Sumner, c. 1879–80