LU15.1

Photograph, crayon portrait

1905

Crayon wedding portrait of Ida Karolin (Foels) Sandretzky, wife of Arthur Sandretsky; born September 19, 1881 in Iowa; died January 3, 1968 in Mapleton. Married Arthur Sandretzky on December 28, 1905. She is the grandmother of Jody (Sandretzky) Johnson, wife of Clifford Johnson, New Richland, Minnesota.

Crayon portraits were photographic enlargements in which a weak photographic image was used as the basis for hand rendering with charcoal or pastels. These portraits were popular from the 1860s through the end of the 19th century. Both printed-out and developing-out images on matte-surfaced papers were the photographic methods. These prints are often mistaken as original portrait artwork, but they are photographically based. LU designation means that the image only was borrowed and scanned into our database by permission of the owner. Actual possession of the photograph was retained by the owner and not transferred to WCHS.