One Room School House with Students and Teachers, 19th C. Outdoor Tintype Dodecagon pin cusion with chainlink fence in the

with chainlink fence in the background overgrown with vines and trees to either side

The eyes on the wonderfully carved

Marvelous faces with fabulous expressions

a few pencil marks

which I find really very elegant and just right in every possible way

One Room School House with Students and Teachers, 19th C. Outdoor Tintype Dodecagon pin cusion with chainlink fence in theI 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