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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Figtree3, post: 9739723, member: 33&quot;]This looks like what was called a crayon portrait or solar enlargement. This web page has a good description of what they are all about... <a href="https://restoreoldphotosnow.com/inside-the-crayon-portrait/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://restoreoldphotosnow.com/inside-the-crayon-portrait/" rel="nofollow">https://restoreoldphotosnow.com/inside-the-crayon-portrait/</a></p><p>basically, as they wrote, &quot;a weak photograph that is hand embellished with colored pastels or charcoal.&quot; (&quot;Weak&quot; in this case means light, or underexposed.) These where extremely common from the mid 1800s through about the 1920s. They were normally enlarged from the original size, as discussed in the link. </p><p><br /></p><p>We have had several other discussions of these in this forum through the years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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