Occupational tintypes are about as cheap today as when they were made, but they offer a valuable look at working-class America during and just after the Civil War
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Walt Whitman said, “The real war will never get in the books.” The critic and writer Paul Fussell feels that the same sanitizing of history that went on after the 1860s has erased the national memory of what World War II was really like.
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The medieval look that swept America 150 years ago wasn’t just a matter of nostalgia for pointed archways and crenellated towers; it was also the very model of a modern architectural style.
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