
From Daguerreotypes to Tintypes: Capturing the American Frontier
In the 1800s, photographers traveled the American frontier in covered wagons or set up temporary studios, capturing portraits with tintypes and daguerreotypes. These early photos preserved the faces of Native Americans, outlaws, settlers, and cowboys just as the Old West was fading. Thanks to their work, we can still see the people and places of a vanished era.









