"singhals" <singhals@erols.com> wrote in message news:QLydnWBoNI-rvBXanZ2dnUVZ_gWdnZ2d@rcn.net... > > 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 Wikipedia suggests hand colouring was done from the 1840s to mid 1950s but after 1920 it was less popular. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand-colouring