tintype

photographic process producing a direct positive image on a thin sheet of lacquered metal (usually iron, never tin)
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tintype

Summary

tintype is a photographic technique[1]. tintype ranks in the top 10% of photographic_technique entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (440 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • tintype's image is recorded as Ferrotype.jpg[3].
  • tintype's instance of is recorded as photographic technique[4].
  • tintype's GND ID is recorded as 4449311-3[5].
  • tintype's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85135543[6].
  • tintype's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12444612k[7].
  • tintype's subclass of is recorded as wet collodion process[8].
  • tintype's Commons category is recorded as Tintypes[9].
  • tintype's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 75152[10].
  • tintype's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/08p__f[11].
  • tintype's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300053531[12].
  • tintype's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 772.14[13].
  • tintype's product or material produced is recorded as tintype[14].
  • tintype's National Library of Latvia ID is recorded as 000316116[15].
  • tintype's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/tintype[16].
  • tintype's Quora topic ID is recorded as Tintype[17].
  • tintype's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 76019171[18].
  • tintype's Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging is recorded as 13429[19].
  • tintype's TOPCMB ID is recorded as ferrotipo[20].
  • tintype's Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID is recorded as tecnicas/1028826[21].
  • tintype's Dictionary of Archives Terminology ID is recorded as tintype[22].
  • tintype's Dictionary of Archives Terminology ID is recorded as ferrotyping[23].
  • tintype's Dictionary of Archives Terminology ID is recorded as ferrotype[24].
  • tintype's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 53253[25].
  • tintype's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/0419fe74-270f-49ef-8884-05f1b81a6947[26].

Why It Matters

tintype ranks in the top 10% of photographic_technique entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (440 views/month).[2] tintype has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] tintype is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] . Art & Architecture Thesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  11. [13] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
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  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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