One Room School House with Students and Teachers, 19th C. Outdoor Tintype cast concrete mushroom which suggests an interesting name1)

which suggests an interesting name1) and four on the other--the latter perhaps the abbreviation for a business

Something appears to have gnawed a bit at its snout at some point

they're old

so moves around freely inside when the bottle is moved

One Room School House with Students and Teachers, 19th C. Outdoor Tintype cast concrete mushroom which suggests an interesting name1)I believe this tintype dates to the 1870s or so, based especially on the clothing of the adults and, as far as I've been able to determine in researching, it is a fairly rare one; I've turned up a good number of school photos taken outside one room school houses produced as cabinet cards paper printed photos, but tintype examples seem very few and far between. Quite a wonderful array of faces and postures and attitudes I think, with what seems to be a