TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT 103 



DEPARTMENT OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND PUBLICATION 

 Elwin R. Sanborn, Editor and Photographer; Anna Newman, Assistant. 



Photography. — In 1919, the photographic work comprised 

 various construction subjects and other details about the Park, 

 copies of drawings, printed matter and antlers. The series of 

 birds and reptiles included the Magellan upland geese and young, 

 homing pigeons, emus and young, mute swans and cygnets and 

 Chilian sea eagles. Among the mammals photographed were 

 polar bear cubs, Kobuk River bear, Kodiak bear, Alaskan brown 

 bear, Russian bear and cubs, Bactrian camels, kangaroos, a series 

 of pictures of the young Grant zebra, lynx, and eland and young. 

 Several views of the tank systems at the Aquarium, of beaver 

 works at the Beaver Pond, and of the Pheasant Aviary were 

 taken. 



Exhibitions. — An exhibit of the principal buildings, animal 

 enclosures, publications and many animals and birds of the 

 Park in the form of enlargements was prepared and loaned to 

 the St. Louis Public Library. The pictures were all matted and 

 labeled, the animal subjects were colored, and the covers of 

 all the publications were mounted, matted and titled. The col- 

 lection, which included a large colored map of the Park and 

 gave a most comprehensive idea of the scope of the Society's 

 work, was most warmly commended by the Custodian of the 

 St. Louis Library. 



Bulletin. — Six numbers of the Bulletin were issued, but 

 not without great difficulty, and some tribulation. Added to the 

 lack of new arrivals among the animal collections which fur- 

 nishes a needed source of material, was a strike among the 

 printers. So effectual was the latter that for several months 

 little or no work was done in any printing shop in New York 

 City. And even after the men consented to work, there was 

 a deplorable want of professional pride and a consequent appal- 

 ling mass of mistakes, heartbreaking delays and mediocre results 

 in the completed job. Nothing was certain, and the task of 

 following the erratic movements and efforts of the printers 

 was the most severe by far that this department ever experi- 

 enced. It is hardly necessary to speak of the mounting costs of 

 printing, except to say that if they had decreased as much as 

 they have advanced, we now would be paying practically noth- 

 ing for our work. 



