PHOTOGRAPHIC DEPARTMENT /~Vf the hundreds of photographic and photostatic prints fur- ^-' nished last year, approximately two thirds were ordered from the Society by visitors and correspondents; among these, for example, was an order for photostatic copies of over 200 indentures of the mid-18th century. The remaining third of the prints were supplied to the Society's departments for record, reproduction, or research, as in the case of the prints made for the Museum Department from 250 glass negatives of Revolutionary War-site excavations photographed in the early 1900s by the Society's Field Exploration Committee. Over half of the new negatives made each year are expressly ordered for the Society's use, either in cataloguing newly acquired accessions (such as the items described in the reports of the Museum and Library), for reproduction in the Society's publications, or for disseminating information about our holdings and services. All photographic negatives, whether for departmental or outside use, are retained in the Society's files. Besides photographs and photostats, this department also furnishes microfilms, lantern slides, and transparencies of material in our Library, Map and Print Room, Manuscript Collection, the Bella C. Landauer Collection, and the Museum. The total output for 1959 of all these items is recorded in Appendix V. Bernard F. Folts, the Society's valued Photographer for the past seven years, died suddenly on November 1 ith. His associates have lost a beloved friend. The burden of this department was ably carried on at that critical moment by Mr. Michael Lazlo who is regularly in charge of photostating and microfilming. Those using the Photographic Department's services are grateful to him and to Messrs. Joseph R. Rapport and Edward H. Santrucek for their emergency assistance until the undersigned assumed his duties. Theodore J. Peruche Photographer