The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-11-08
F. NJ Moore, views in and about Fol-

F. NJ Moore, views in and about Fol
som.
w. D. Kilbourn, instantaneous view!
Of the Electrical Carnival and Admis
sion Day professions; Dr. l. G. Shaw
fine marine effects on San Francisco
Bay and some other inland waters
views about the Folsom Power Work:
and around Monterey Bay; C. b
Brown, views in and about Truckee anC
on the Sacramento River and views OF
| California lakes.
In the unmarked lot of pictures, Of
which there are hundred or more OF
tables, are orchard and vineyard views
mountain, park, lawn, marine and val
ley landscapes, portraiture, pictures Of
public buildings and public works, OF
river steamers loaded with produce
trains of cars, fine California stock, Cal
ifornia produce, etc.
The club has prepared and just ISSUED
to the public in neat form an address
that fully sets forth its purposes ana
the advantages of club membership, the
free instruction given, etc, and which
! address we reproduce as a fitting con
| c!uSion Of this article. The club says:
This club was organized by the anna
| teur photographers of Sacramento,
! for the general advancement of photOg-
raphy, mutual Improvement in photog-
raphy and the sciences and arts allied
thereto, the facilitation of its practice,
separate from its trade, profession or
commercial relations, furthered by prl-
vate and public demonstrations and eX-
hibitions of photographs and stereop-
tiCon views, exchange of ideas with
other clubs through exchange of IAN
tern slides and photographs, and gen
eral social intercourse.
With the introduction of new and
improved apparatus and processes, and
the corresponding ease with which
really good pictures may be made by
almost any body the practice of anna
teur photography has increased to such
an extent that to-day it stands at the
head of amateur sports and recrea-
tons.
The days of you push the button"
and let someone do the rest have
happily passed and the amateur of to-
day finds as much pleasure in doing
the rest as he does afield with his
camera. When on a pleasure trip of a
day or q week or more there is nothing
more pleasant than to be the pOssessOr
of a camera, and to take here and there
view of some particularly interesting
bit of scenery or episode of the trip, or
when at home a group Of your friends,
your house, or babies, or dogs in char
acteristic attitudes, so different from
the conventional portrait, fine though
it may be; and after the picture is taken
the pleasure only begins when, in a
we'll appointed work room, surrounded
by cOngenial spirits, you develop your
negatives and produce by your own
efforts mementOs that will for years be
a pleasure to yourself and to your
friends.
1t is to provide such convenient work
rooms, and to gather together such
cOngenial spirits that this club is or
gained.
The club rooms, at 1917 J street. are
finely furnished and equipped FOR al
most any branch of amateur phOtog-
raphy Instructive lectures and dem
onstrations are given regularly. The
best literature on photography will be
found upon the tables, and beginners at
the gentle art are given course of in
struction which will enable them to
produce results that could only be OBJ
tanned otherwise by long study and
many discOuraging failures.
Through the American Lantern Slide
Interchange Ca National Association Of
Camera Clubs, lantern slides from all
parts of the United States, as well as
from foreign countries, are exchanged
for similar slides from the best pictures
made by this club, illustrating the sur
rounding country. These pictures will
be, by the use of the stereopticon,
shown both privately to club members
and in public and an opportunity given
the club to secure the best of the many
pictures taken annually by amateurs all
over the world, as well as to place be-
fore thousands of Eastern people who
attend these lantern exhibitions given by
the various clubs pictures Of our own
land of fruits and flowers, and to show
them that beyond the Snowy Range"
there is a country that blooms eternally.
The club is now engaged upon a set of
views illustrating the great electrical
transmission Of power, which is to assist
so materially in building up New Sac
ramentO.
These views when shown throughout
the East will be one Of the best adyer-
tisements for this city ever gotten up,
and it is to assist in carrying out this
work that this club asks the support of
the people Of Sacramento.
Those who believe in pushing our city
and county, but who do not desire to be-
come active members. are asked to join
the club as subscribing members. A
subscribing membership costs 50 per
year, and entities such members to
tickets to each entertainment given by
the club.
The initiation fee for active mem
bers is so, payable in assessments as
called for by vote of the club. OF this
60 per cent. has been called in.
The balance remains due as reserve
fund. Active members pay monthly
due of 81 and in return are entitled to
all the house privileges of the club, in
Guiding the use of a model darkroom,
wcrkrooms and appliances and chem
icals for all classes OF work which could
not be secured individually for many
times that amount; also to instruction
which could be secured from no other
source.
eLady relatives of active members are
admitted as associate members with
out the payment of the initiation fee.
but are subject to the monthly dues of
81. and are entitled to the house privi-
leges of the club.
The officers are: President, DR.. I.
c. Shaw; President, Leon AdrOt;
Secretary, w. G. Woods; Treasurer,
George Littlefield.
The business of the club is ntrusted
to a Board of Directors, consisting of
Dr. T. G.. Shaw, Leon Adrot, l.. W. Nick
ell w G.. Woods, w. D. Kilborn, Geo.
I ittlefield and S. 3. Nourse.
CON TuPTR pRJZE%