singhals <singhals@erols.com> wrote: > > I know we've covered this (g), but be darn if I can find it > in my saved mail or on Google ... and I don't see it in my > hard-copy books soooo: > > I need the dates that it was popular to hand-color film > photographs to look like charcoal drawings. > > Thanks! > > Cheryl You got me curious.. I found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_print Could this be what you were referring to? If so, it looks like 1855 through about early 1900's, but scatterd use until even today! Never seen one, I'll have to keep looking!