{"id":209,"date":"2006-03-13T09:04:30","date_gmt":"2006-03-13T09:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2006-03-13T09:04:30","modified_gmt":"2006-03-13T09:04:30","slug":"gem-tintypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"Gem tintypes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I unearthed another trove of Nova Scotia Faces photographs, hidden in a box with an enigmatic label (that&#8217;s what happens when you move) and rediscovered an album of what are technically called &#8220;gem&#8221; tintypes &#8211;about 0.75 x 1 inch, which is to say small enough that they are difficult to see. I&#8217;m scanning them at 1200 dpi and and applying some Photoshop magic to adjust the brightness and contrast, and I&#8217;m rewarded with astonishing portraits, like this one:<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oook.info\/images\/glasses2.jpg\"><br \/>See <a href=\"http:\/\/nsfaces.schtuff.com\/gem_album\">others in the set<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I unearthed another trove of Nova Scotia Faces photographs, hidden in a box with an enigmatic label (that&#8217;s what happens when you move) and rediscovered an album of what are technically called &#8220;gem&#8221; tintypes &#8211;about 0.75 x 1 inch, which is to say small enough that they are difficult to see. I&#8217;m scanning them at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}