HIGH SEAS
_By _Joseph Petrocelli, _New York City_

[SIXTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY, By Ben J. Lubschez, New York City]

SIXTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY
_By _BEN J. LUBSCHEZ, _New York City_

[HILLSIDE SHADOWS, By Charles K. Archer, Pittsburgh, Pa.]

HILLSIDE SHADOWS
_By _Charles K. Archer, _Pittsburgh, Pa._

[MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST, By Herbert B. Turner,
Boston, Mass.]

MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST
_By _HERBERT B. TURNER, _Boston, Mass._

[THE SCHOOL YARD, By Vernon E. Duroe, Brooklyn, N. Y.]

THE SCHOOL YARD
_By _Vernon E. Duroe, _Brooklyn, N. Y._

THE PURPOSE OF THE PICTORIAL PHOTOGRAPHERS OF AMERICA

To stimulate and encourage those engaged and interested in the Art of
Photography; to honor those who have given valuable service to the
advancement of Photography; to form centers for intercourse and for
exchange of views; to facilitate the formation of centers where the
photographers may be always seen and purchased by the public; to enlist
the aid of museums and public libraries in adding photographic prints to
their departments; to stimulate public taste through exhibitions,
lectures, and publication; to invite exhibits of foreign work and
encourage participation in exhibitions held in foreign countries; to
promote education in this Art so as to raise the standards of Photography
in the United States of America.

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THE PICTORIAL PHOTOGRAPHERS OF AMERICA

Some five years ago a small group of photographers in New York City and
vicinity formed a nucleus for the institution of a society. Its name was
ambitious--The Pictorial Photographers of America; its aims and objects
sounded visionary, almost fantastic. Already many times printed, they
bear repetition and have been incorporated in a separate page in this
book. In one sense these aims were visionary, because they were thought
out and formulated by men of vision, who now stand justified: in hardly
one of these directions have we failed to make important advance and in
many we have pushed far. But we do not rest upon what we have done; in
none of these pursuits can we pause and say "It is accomplis