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<p>[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 8444276, member: 8267"]It looks like a tintype photo. Tintypes are usually one offs, although multiples could be produced with a multi-lens camera. I doubt that any candidate would sit for the many exposures needed to make lots of campaign buttons. They may have photographed an existing cartes-de-visite, a process which would reverse the orientation of the original source image. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.pinterest.com/creativecockade/tintype-buttons/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pinterest.com/creativecockade/tintype-buttons/" rel="nofollow">https://www.pinterest.com/creativecockade/tintype-buttons/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 8444276, member: 8267"]It looks like a tintype photo. Tintypes are usually one offs, although multiples could be produced with a multi-lens camera. I doubt that any candidate would sit for the many exposures needed to make lots of campaign buttons. They may have photographed an existing cartes-de-visite, a process which would reverse the orientation of the original source image. [URL]https://www.pinterest.com/creativecockade/tintype-buttons/[/URL][/QUOTE]
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