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Updated: June 11, 2025
His prices have consequently come down to such a point that pauperism itself need hardly shrink from the outlay required for a family portrait-gallery. The "tin-types," as the small miniatures are called, stanno-types would be the proper name, are furnished at the rate of two cents each!
Think what it would have been to me when I was tramping around with my tin-types to find a column and a half of real, cultured conversation an artist, in his studio abroad, talking of his art, and to know how he looked as he did it, and what the room was like, and what he had for breakfast; and to tell myself, eating tinned beans beside a creek, that if all went well, the same sort of thing would, sooner or later, happen to myself; why, Loudon, it would have been like a peep-hole into heaven!"
Holt," Jack answered; with a smile. "What d'ye mean? I don't want no tin-types taken." "We haven't asked you to have any photos made, Mr. Holt," Benson ran on. "We're just talking about becoming guests here." "For twenty-four hours," supplied Hal Hastings. "For at least two days," Jack amended. "But, see here," explained Landlord Holt. "Rates here are two dollars a day.
"Because," added Dotty, who wished to have everything clearly explained, "because we want to have our tin-types taken, sir. We saw a saloon riding on wheels, and we thought we'd go there, and see if the man wasn't ready to take pictures." "And our little cousin may use her third, and buy something out of the store, if you please," said the blushing Prudy. Mr.
On this basis we made a treaty and the Apaches kept it. I had a lot of tin-types taken in New York, which I distributed freely among the chiefs, so they might know me if we should meet again. Many years afterwards an Apache girl told me they could have killed me often from ambush, but they remembered the treaty and would not do it.
Raising the window, he scattered a bunch of handbills among them, which set them all to scrambling, and, when they had caught the bills, to struggling with large and small type which announced that an unrivalled photographer would be in that vicinity in a very few days with his beautiful travelling-car, giving everybody an opportunity of securing such tin-types and photographs as only the large cities turned out, and at the lowest possible prices.
He glanced casually into the leather box. Some faded tin-types, some letters, a very old Bible, and odds and ends of a young man's fancy: Haggerty shrugged. It looked as if he had stumbled into a mare's-nest. "He said you took money." "He lied," tersely. "Do y' want t' appear against him?" "No. We sail at seven to-morrow. So long as he missed his shot, let him go."
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