PHOTOGRAPHIC DEPARTMENT Looking back over another busy year, we note several distinctive -•"developments in the work of the Photographic Department during 1955. The city's face-lifting operations, suddenly so active, necessitated renewed emphasis on outside jobs to supply record photographs of our changing metropolis for the Society's files. On several bright and sunny days, men and equipment were taken to 18th Street and Third Avenue to photograph the old Stuyvesant Apartments, torn down since to make way for a modern apartment building, and to take a final picture of the Third Avenue Elevated station on that corner, which has also been razed. Another day was devoted to photographing a doomed mansion at the northwest corner of 79th Street and Park Avenue. A similar project was executed several months ago when the vast and beautiful interiors of the Metropolitan Club were photographed. Our department has not only kept pace with the city's progress, but it has also been called upon to meet the demands of modern industries. We cooperated in the production of a motion- picture travelogue of the United States by making 125 enlargements of maps and views in the Society's print collection to be used in the film. Like these enlargements, many orders for prints to meet special needs came to us throughout the year, in addition to requests for reproductions of standard sizes and finish. Three times as many enlargements were made in 1955 as during the previous year, and we have also turned out a particularly large number of photostats this year. Because television producers and book publishers seem to work on very close schedules, we have had to supply a great many rush orders to meet their deadlines whenever possible. Besides the outstanding jobs already mentioned, this department has made its usual contribution to the photographic records of the Society's activities and events: covering lectures, festivals,