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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;smallaxe, post: 2493689, member: 13430&quot;]In the 1970&#039;s, just out of high school, I traveled to the Southern US with my granddad and we spent a few months visiting all the relatives. When visiting the old people, I&#039;d get them to bring out their old photos, and I would take photographic copies with my dad&#039;s Minolta camera and macro lens. I&#039;m glad I did, because I fear many have not survived the passing of two generations.</p><p>While there, I was given a crudely framed 15x19 inch enlargement of photos of my great grandfather and his brother. They both died young, one in the first decade of the 1900&#039;s and the other in the early 1890&#039;s. I&#039;m trying to figure out if that enlargement is an original solar enlargement made at the time, or a photographic enlargement made later (maybe a photo of a solar enlargement)? How can I tell?</p><p>The reason I&#039;m not sure, is that it all looks like a photo - it doesn&#039;t look like charcoal or other drawing material has been applied, but the shoulders and lapels look touched up/drawn. Among the photos I took back then was one that is clearly a crayon portrait (included further down). This photo I&#039;m wondering about is like a cross between that and a straight up photograph. My other question is how do I conserve this? It&#039;s yellowing, and fading, in addition to water damage from before when I had it. It&#039;s like a thin sheet of paper attached to thick card stock. It&#039;s staring to decompose at the edges. In its frame it was backed by common cardboard, which I&#039;ve removed recently since that&#039;s likely not helping things.</p><p><br /></p><p>Front and back of the enlargement I&#039;m asking about. The lighting was not good. It&#039;s not as yellow in life as in these images.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]267137[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]267138[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>When I made copies of photos, among them were the original photos that appear on the enlargement above. Here is the photo the left hand man is based on.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]267141[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This is the copy I made of the crayon portrait and the portion of a group photo of a large family on which it was based. You can see that it&#039;s mostly drawing, whereas the one at the top of my post is mostly photograph. They happen to be the parents of the two men in the first photo.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]267142[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]267143[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m pretty sure all the photos I&#039;ve shown are from the late 1880&#039;s to mid 1890&#039;s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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