One Room School House with Students and Teachers, 19th C. Outdoor Tintype cast concrete mushroom as part of a "refined"

as part of a "refined" education

While wonderfully worn

burn mark along bottom edge and a little wear to bottom right corner

I purchased a studio pottery bowl similar in feeling to this one at the estate sale of a professor of architecture who had an incredible collection of modernist furniture

One Room School House with Students and Teachers, 19th C. Outdoor Tintype cast concrete mushroom as part of a "refined"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