The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-10-18
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san Frauclsco Camera club WIN Mir-
ror the Picturesque and the Historic
cal boz the Golden Gate city

SAN FRANCISCO. October i-San
Francisco b. requested 10 Took please
ant please" FOR it b. about Co have its
pictures taken in "a manner never before
attempted In the West
ON October 40 the San Francisco Ca
mera club will take pictures Of the en-
tire city, reproducing every nook and
corner, every picturesque point making
a series Of some twelve hundred views,
all taken on the same day and praeti-
cally at about the same time
The matter was definitely settled at
a meeting held at the clubrooms In the
Academy Of Sciences building last night
when the members of the club gathered
to discuss its plans for wholesale pho
Biography
The idea of photographing San Fran
cisco originated with j. w. Erwin. Sc
cretary of the club, at whose behest the
meeting was called last night. That the
undertaking of the club will be sue
cess Is assured, for over hundred
members have pledged themselves To
take part i'm the Photographic raid and
each member has agreed to take notices.
than twelve different views.
The work will be done under the di-
rection of an executive committee COM
posed of the following gentlemen: Carl
r. Alderman, w. Il. Dassonvile, Il. II,
Kemp, j. r.. Gwynn and ID. II. When
Jr. The committee will at once APP
portion the city into districts and assign
the members to the various divisions.
In districting the city special atten-
ton will be given to the picturesque
and historical features of the metropolis
of the West. The water front for eN-
ample, will be portioned off into fifteen
districts, Golden Gate Park will contain
seven, Chinatown four, the Latin quar-
ter five and in this way every feature
of San Francisco life will be mirrored
The work viii begin early on the
18th and continue throughout the day
as many of the members will take much
more than the required number of views
The committee will give every encoura-
cement to those who will take more
than the dozen views required as it is
anxious to collect the largest and mos
perfect set of municipal photographs il
America.
1t is thought probable that special
! prizes will be offered for the best work
done although nothing has been settled
/ as yet in this respect. What the com
mittee is aiming at is to get a concerted
movement from the club wherein eacl
member will do his best to add to tht
already fine collection of views now
owned by the club
+ Each member has agreed to furnish
the club with two prints from each ne
| gative taken, which will go to the clul
collection. One set will be placed il
large albums which are being made 70
the purpose and the other will b,
mounted and placed on file, with tn,
name and address of the owner of tn
plate, for reference.
In addition to the photographs a Sc
of 125 lantern slide views of this cit!
will be the clubs contribution to tn,
American Lantern Slide Interchange
These will be accompanied by lectur
on the city so that every city which
is a member of the association, som,
one hundred and fifty in all, will hav
a complete set of San Francisco view
and an interesting lecture thereon. A
soon as the work of photographing i
completed and the prints made the clu
will hold a special exhibition of the pic
lures taken. This, it is thought, cal
be held by the list of November at tn
latest.