Since photography’s beginnings, practitioners have sought ways to add color to their photos. For the first 100 years, this required tinting the photos by hand.  This exhibit provides a range of examples from this period, from daguerreotypes to silver-gelatin, and focuses on two formats: enlarged, hand-painted tintypes from the late 19th century and oval “chalk photos” from the early 20th. The widespread popularity of these enlarged formats largely took over the role of folk- art painting, while making portraiture more widely available across class and racial lines. Rather than being limited only to those wealthy enough to commission a painting, now anyone could have a portrait of an honored family member hanging over their mantel.