One Room School House with Students and Teachers, 19th C. Outdoor Tintype 1930s signs what looks to be a

what looks to be a little upside-down heart in pencil

complete with scale (i

Though he has occasionally carved other small animals

explained to both me and the dealer I purchased it from that it is an ice chipper

making the hand of its maker feel all the more present

One Room School House with Students and Teachers, 19th C. Outdoor Tintype 1930s signs what looks to be aI believe this tintype dates to the 1870s or so, based especially on the clothing of the adults and, as far as I've been able to determine in researching, it is a fairly rare one; I've turned up a good number of school photos taken outside one room school houses produced as cabinet cards paper printed photos, but tintype examples seem very few and far between. Quite a wonderful array of faces and postures and attitudes I think, with what seems to be a