Complex sentence: The club known today as the Boston Camera Club was founded October 7,1881 in Boston, Massachusetts as the Boston Society of Amateur Photographers, and is the second-oldest continuously extant amateur camera club in the United States.
Split into simpler sentences: The club known today as the Boston Camera Club was founded October 7,1881 in Boston, Massachusetts as the Boston Society of Amateur Photographers. Accordingly it is the second-oldest continuously extant amateur camera club in the United States.