Tintype Album
PhotographerPhotographed by
Unknown
Datec. 1850-1890
MediumPhotography; tintype on lacquered iron plate mounted in cardboard pages in album
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (overall height x width, open): 3 1/2 × 6 1/2in. (8.9 × 16.5cm)
Other (overall height x width, closed): 3 1/2 × 3 1/8in. (8.9 × 7.9cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of Leontine M. Thomson
Object number2022.44.2
DescriptionTintype album containing 31 tintype portraits of unidentified subjects. One photo is possibly of three Chinese Educational Mission students. The majority of the subjects are children and younger people. The album originally belonged to Sarah Wilkinson Lewis Vaille (1824-1913).
NotesHistorical Note: The Chinese Educational Mission (1872-1881) in Hartford, Connecticut, was the fulfillment of a dream of Yung Wing. He wanted Chinese youth to study American technology to improve China’s engineering and infrastructure. Yung Wing came to the United States in 1847 to study at Monson Academy in Massachusetts, and at Yale in New Haven, Connecticut. It was upon his return to China that he began planning to persuade the Government to send 120 Chinese students to America. The first group of thirty students ranging in age from ten to fourteen arrived in Hartford in 1872. They lived with host families, attended local schools, and in the summer studied Chinese classics at the Mission’s headquarters at Sumner Street and later 352 Collins Street, Hartford. In 1881, the Chinese government recalled the students because they thought they were becoming too Americanized.Status
Not on view
Anne C. Gilbert
