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Unknown Artist — The Hold-Up

Unknown Artist

The Hold-Up

1880

Created as popular entertainment, this whole-plate tintype represents photography's role in American folk culture and the Western genre's emergence in visual media.

Medium
tintype, whole plate

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Unknown Artist, The Hold-Up, 1880

Created as popular entertainment, this whole-plate tintype represents photography's role in American folk culture and the Western genre's emergence in visual media.

Medium
tintype, whole plate
Year
1880
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Vintage, Action, Figure, Documentary, 19th Century, American, Historical, Portrait, Tintype, Sepia Tones

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Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago