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Silhouettes have also been used to create images that serve as business documents.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Purtill|first=Corinne|title=An enslaved woman's shadow is the most compelling image in the National Portrait Gallery|url=https://qz.com/quartzy/1471019/an-enslaved-womans-candlelit-shadow-is-the-most-compelling-image-in-the-us-national-portrait-gallery/|access-date=2021-11-24|website=Quartz|date=21 November 2018 |language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200422142730/https://qz.com/quartzy/1471019/an-enslaved-womans-candlelit-shadow-is-the-most-compelling-image-in-the-us-national-portrait-gallery/|archive-date=April 22, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last1=Catlin|first1=Roger|title=Rarely Seen 19th-Century Silhouette of a Same-Sex Couple Living Together Goes On View|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/rarely-seen-19th-century-silhouette-same-sex-couple-living-together-goes-view-180969156/|access-date=2021-11-24|website=Smithsonian Magazine|language=en}}</ref> Slave owners have had silhouettes made of the people they enslaved in order to document them as property and in order to accompany other business documents such as a [[Bill of sale|bill of sale]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Africans in America/Part 2/Flora|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh//aia/part2/2h69.html|access-date=2021-11-24|website=www.pbs.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211124073346/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh//aia/part2/2h69.html|archive-date=November 24, 2021|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-06-14|title='Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now': Rare art form on display in Mississippi more than just shadows of the past|url=https://mississippitoday.org/2019/06/14/black-out-silhouettes-then-and-now-rare-art-form-on-display-in-mississippi-more-than-just-shadows-of-the-past/|access-date=2021-11-24|website=Mississippi Today|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928113745/https://mississippitoday.org/2019/06/14/black-out-silhouettes-then-and-now-rare-art-form-on-display-in-mississippi-more-than-just-shadows-of-the-past/|archive-date=September 28, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>

File:Metallic silhouettes.jpg|[[Metallic silhouette]] for target shooting ([[National Rifle Association|NRA]])