I just love these old photos. This one was probably an ambrotype taken about 1860, which was copied and reprinted as a tintype. I love that the tintype was put back in the casing for the ambrotype. This is the Joseph Bartlett Maynard family of Leverett, Franklin, Massachusetts. Joseph and his wife, Mary Glazier Maynard eventually had 10 children. I can date the photo by the children as well as the clothes and hair styles. The 3 boys were born in 1844, 1845 and 1848. Then they had girls born in 1850, 1852, 1855 and 1858. The youngest is about 2 and she was born in May, 1858. The 8th child, a boy, was born in Oct. 1860. The young girl in the back behind her father and baby sister is my great grandmother. She doesn't look like she was very happy at having to stay still for the photographer.
