I see dead people. In antiques stores, in books, on the Web. You can, too, if you're not afraid. You don't need a sixth sense, just an open mind and an acceptance of death as a part of life. Our ...

Despite tintype photography’s Civil War–era origins, you can hold a magnifying glass to such a photo and see individual threads of clothing. That’s because the image is made of molecular silver ...

(Left) Unidentified artist, Untitled (family, painted backdrop), undated, tintype. Unidentified artist, Untitled (pin, woman in hat), undated, celluloid in metal setting. Smithsonian American Art ...

An artist who regularly collects antique photography says she was stunned after purchasing a 19th-century portrait that turned out to be an uncanny double of her wife. "She looked surprisingly similar ...

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Larry West was looking for a hobby that would combine visual arts and American history. And he found it in 1975 at an antique store in Mamaroneck, N.Y. At that time, boxes of daguerreotypes — the ...