One Room School House with Students and Teachers, 19th C. Outdoor Tintype 1930s signs explained to both me and

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

complete with scale (i

by folding then cutting--usually described as valentines

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 explained to both me andI 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