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appeared. It has come to pass, therefore, that some of the cuts used 

 in given publications are in custody of the department while others, 

 are retained by the Public Printer, and when i-eprints are requested 

 or when electrotypes are desired by outside parties it is difficult to 

 get all the cuts together. This has also made it exceedingly difficult 

 for persons outside the department to secure electrotypes of the cuts 

 of illustrations in department publications. It has been the custom 

 in the past to furnish original cuts to a commercial engraving house, 

 where the electrotj'pes could be prepared very promptly and the cost 

 billed against the purchaser. The Government Printing Office will 

 make electros only when payment is made in advance, and this neces- 

 sitates a considerable amount of correspondence and delay. Seven 

 hundred and seventy-five cuts were sent to the Printing Office for 

 reprinting publications. Three hundred and ninety-five cuts were 

 duplicated by electrotyping firms for use in outside publications. 



Because of the volume of work a plan was inaugurated during the 

 year of calling on the various bureaus of the department to reim- 

 burse the illustrations section for photographic material used in doing 

 work for these bureaus. This made it possible for the division to 

 finance the work out of its own funds, whereas in previous years it 

 had been necessary to call upon the bureaus to purchase material 

 because the appropriations in the division were inadequate. There 

 was a slight falling off in the number of contact prints made, largely 

 because of the discontinuance of the Special Information Service. 

 The bromide enlargement work, however, which is considerably more 

 difficult and exacting, has almost doubled, and if it continues to in- 

 crease the assignment of additional help will be necessary. The new 

 projection printer purchased last year has been of great assistance 

 in this work. Prints of department photographs to the value of 

 $1,325.28 were made for outside parties and this amount turned over 

 to the disbursing office to be covered into the Treasury. The at- 

 tached summary shows the output of photographic work : 



Output of photographic icork, fiscal year 1922. 



Prints 97,068 



Negatives . — 7, 460 



Prints mounted 4, 638 



Lantern slides , 12, 806 



Developing 4. 112 



Bromides 4, 619 



Maps and bromides mounted 2, 779 



Bromides colored 1, 037 



Solar bromides 277 



Transparencies colored 66 



Photomicrographs 32 



Photostats 14,852 



Autochromes 8 



Transparencies 66 



In the latter part of June the section of illustrations was moved 

 from the quarters in the Bieber Building, which it had occupied 

 for some years, to 220 Linworth Place, in order to make room for 

 the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. In some respects the new 

 quarters are entirely satisfactory, but it was not possible to obtain 

 enough space to bring together all the photographic work. It is 

 extremely desirable that the basement floor of the Linworth Place 



