stereograph exchange club

[P3D <PgWhacker@xxxxxxx>]

Members of the Amateur Photographic Exchange Club are getting ready for 
our next exchange of print stereo views.  If you'd like to join or if 
you'd like more information about the club, let me know. Deadline for 
letting us know you're in for the June 1st exchange is May 1st.  
Membership is free.




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 Amateur Photographic Exchange Club:

History

        In the 1860s, before commercial stereographs were widely available, 
pioneer stereographers formed the famous Amateur Photographic Exchange 
Club.  Six times a year each member sent every other member one 
self-produced stereograph.  The club had a number of rich and powerful 
contributors (Oliver Wendell Holmes was an honorary member), and today 
surviving APEC views sell at premium prices.

        Now the Amateur Photographic Exchange Club has been reborn.  Four times 
a year each of our members exchanges one self-produced print stereograph 
with every other member.  APEC lets members discover valuable stereo 
photographic techniques and it helps us amass a collection of other 
stereographers' best work.


How the club works

        Membership is free.  (Of course we do print and mount the views we send 
in, and we cover our own postage.)

        We exchange print stereographs in either of two formats:  classic 
Holmes, 3.5 by 7 inches, and;  modern View-Magic 4 inches high by any 
width -- usually 6 inches.

        In contrast to the slide and print circuits run by the NSA and other 
groups, APEC members keep and own the stereo views they receive with each 
exchange.

        Four times a year we each exchange one stereograph with every other club 
member.  For example, if there are 30 folks in the club, we each send in 
29 stereo views.  We don't send 29 different views, we send 29 (or 
whatever) copies of the same view.

        We use centralized mailing, which saves a bundle on postage.  Everyone 
sends their package of views to the View Redistributor, who sorts the 
views, repackages them and mails them back.

        There are four exchanges a year.  Views are due at the View 
Redistrubutor's on the first day of March, June, September, December.


How to Join

        Just let us know if you think you might like in.  Again, membership is 
free.  We'll send you an information packet and wait to hear your final 
decision.

        The quickest and cheapest way to contact us it via email, though 
snail-mail is fine too.  Since we aren't revenue generating, I don't have 
money to return long-distance phone calls, but you can reach me at home 
by phone most evenings.


How to Reach Us

Best:
        email:  PgWhacker@xxxxxxx

Good:
        Greg Kane
        APEC View Redistributor
        10785 East Crestline Place
        Englewood, Colorado  80111

Problematic:
        (303) 741-4622   voice (evenings) / fax (anytime)

Or visit our web site:

http://www.dddesign.com/3dbydan/apec





Greg Kane
Denver

PgWhacker@xxxxxxx





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