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<p>[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 130887, member: 33"]The reason Bakers put "crayon" in quotation marks is that one of the names for these is crayon portraits, but they actually use a wide variety of media to cover the photograph. Sometimes pastels, sometimes paint, sometimes charcoal, etc. I'm not positive if this is one of those, but it does look like one. It seems to have less detail in it than most I have seen. Still, I think it's likely that it is.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a few references for them. They are also called solar enlargements, and there was a special camera used for the underlying photographic part. They were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As I mentioned, this one is somewhat different in that it doesn't have as much detail as a lot of them do.</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><br /></p><p><a href="https://auroramohistoricalsociety.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/crayon-portrait/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://auroramohistoricalsociety.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/crayon-portrait/" rel="nofollow">https://auroramohistoricalsociety.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/crayon-portrait/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30248/30248-h/30248-h.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30248/30248-h/30248-h.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30248/30248-h/30248-h.htm</a></p><p><br /></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>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 130887, member: 33"]The reason Bakers put "crayon" in quotation marks is that one of the names for these is crayon portraits, but they actually use a wide variety of media to cover the photograph. Sometimes pastels, sometimes paint, sometimes charcoal, etc. I'm not positive if this is one of those, but it does look like one. It seems to have less detail in it than most I have seen. Still, I think it's likely that it is. Here are a few references for them. They are also called solar enlargements, and there was a special camera used for the underlying photographic part. They were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As I mentioned, this one is somewhat different in that it doesn't have as much detail as a lot of them do. [URL]http://sgarwood.com/node/52[/URL] [URL]https://auroramohistoricalsociety.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/crayon-portrait/[/URL] [URL]http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30248/30248-h/30248-h.htm[/URL] [URL]http://brightbytes.com/woodward.html[/URL][/QUOTE]
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