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<p>[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 421770, member: 33"]Many solar enlargements/crayon portraits provided a way to reproduce earlier photos. And sometimes photos taken at the same time of enlargement. I agree that is what this one is (and probably the other one, too).</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's some history. The enlarger was invented in 1857 and the technique was popular from about 1860 into the early 20th century (a long time).</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>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 421770, member: 33"]Many solar enlargements/crayon portraits provided a way to reproduce earlier photos. And sometimes photos taken at the same time of enlargement. I agree that is what this one is (and probably the other one, too). Here's some history. The enlarger was invented in 1857 and the technique was popular from about 1860 into the early 20th century (a long time). [URL]http://sgarwood.com/node/52[/URL][/QUOTE]
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