# How to Identify Daguerreotype, Ambrotype and Tintype Photos

Do you have a box of 19th-century family photos stored in plastic or leather cases you’ve always wanted to know more about? Have you scoured estate sales and been intrigued by small portraits on glass and metal and wondered how they were made? Would you like to know how to best store and preserve your antique photography collection for years to come? Join Library specialists for an overview of how to identify 19th-century photographs — including daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes — as well as an introduction to the collection of cased images housed at the Library of Congress.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2024
- Runtime: 47 min
- By: Smiley, Michelle
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/video-9910/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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