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<p>[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 190680, member: 33"]This appears to be what is called a solar enlargement or crayon portrait or crayon enlargement. (They did not use the type of crayons that we know today.) The first link below briefly explains the process. There are more documents out there if you do a search. And yes, it's considered to be a photograph by most aficionados, since a photograph is underneath any drawing or coloring. However, you could also consider it a drawing on top of a photograph, I suppose.</p><p><br /></p><p>These were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Some were not colorful and some were. Here are a couple of links about the history of the process:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://sgarwood.com/node/52" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://sgarwood.com/node/52" rel="nofollow">http://sgarwood.com/node/52</a></p><p><a href="http://brightbytes.com/woodward.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://brightbytes.com/woodward.html" rel="nofollow">http://brightbytes.com/woodward.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>There are some examples in this Google image search:</p><p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=solar+enlargement&biw=1680&bih=955&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjKnbnKhL3QAhXp4IMKHYArC9wQsAQIMA#tbm=isch&q=crayon+solar+enlargement" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.google.com/search?q=solar+enlargement&biw=1680&bih=955&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjKnbnKhL3QAhXp4IMKHYArC9wQsAQIMA#tbm=isch&q=crayon+solar+enlargement" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?q=solar+enlargement&biw=1680&bih=955&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjKnbnKhL3QAhXp4IMKHYArC9wQsAQIMA#tbm=isch&q=crayon+solar+enlargement</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 190680, member: 33"]This appears to be what is called a solar enlargement or crayon portrait or crayon enlargement. (They did not use the type of crayons that we know today.) The first link below briefly explains the process. There are more documents out there if you do a search. And yes, it's considered to be a photograph by most aficionados, since a photograph is underneath any drawing or coloring. However, you could also consider it a drawing on top of a photograph, I suppose. These were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Some were not colorful and some were. Here are a couple of links about the history of the process: [URL]http://sgarwood.com/node/52[/URL] [URL]http://brightbytes.com/woodward.html[/URL] There are some examples in this Google image search: [URL]https://www.google.com/search?q=solar+enlargement&biw=1680&bih=955&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjKnbnKhL3QAhXp4IMKHYArC9wQsAQIMA#tbm=isch&q=crayon+solar+enlargement[/URL][/QUOTE]
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