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(1) Take pictures of school children, after obtaining permission from the school principal. Photograph each child separately. Develop them, print 3 to a strip, place them in an envelope and give it to the child to take home. Print the price of the pictures on the envelope with instructions to the mother to return the money or the pictures in the enclosed envelope. If the price is right, there will be very few mothers who will not want to retain the pictures.

(2) Visit the various summer camps (if you drive a car). Snap the children; obtain names and addresses of the parents. Develop the pictures and mail them to the respective parents with instructions either to return the pictures or the money.

(3) There are many people who are proud possessors of pets, cats, dogs, etc. Invariably they will welcome the visiting photographer.

(4) Take informal pictures of babies, caught in the act of creeping or showing their first teeth or in comic poses and in home surroundings.

(5) Study the magazines and newspapers and get an idea of the kind of pictures that are in demand. You can make money selling your pictures to the magazines and other publications that purchase photographs. It is impossible to walk down a city street or drive into the country without seeing something that would be of interest to some editor.

Among the hundreds of pictures in demand are such as natural wonders, novel inventions, news events, sea views, bathing beauties, new buildings, art museums, libraries, unusual trees, pictures that suggest ideas for magazine covers, rural scenes, western scenes, groups of people, arriving immigrants, general outdoor views, freaks of nature such as odd trees and other unusual phenomena.

The prices paid for photographs range from $1 to $3 for those of average interest and merit.

(6) Enter amateur photograph contests. Watch the newspaper and amateur photographers' magazines for notice of such contests.

(7) Book plates, with the owner's picture and name pasted are very unusual and unique. This is very suitable for a children's library or even for an adult. Here is a suggestion for some enterprising man or woman who can also design unusual book plates to combine this art with photography and make real money.

(8) Another possibility is to make up calendars, having the photograph of a church as the focussing interest. Such calendars could easily be sold to every member of the church. Blank calendars can be bought, and the photographs of the church pasted on carefully.

(9) A student who could afford the purchase of a pony, could earn a substantial sum during summer vacations by traveling around town or through the suburbs photographing children riding on the pony.

(10) If you want to invest in a number of inexpensive cameras, locate at a small stand in a park or at a picnic ground. Have your cameras with films, ready for use, and rent them to the picnickers at the rate of 5 or 10 cents an hour. Of course a small deposit should be required from the user to guarantee the safe return of the camera. A profitable side line would be the development of films.

(11) Photograph pictures of old homes and old farm houses for present occupants who might want to mail them to children and relatives now living in the city.

(12) If you do much traveling use your camera for the purpose of travel films which can be made into stereopticon slides. Money can be made by delivering stereopticon lectures at schools, churches, and clubs, charging a small fee.

The Eastman Kodak Company at Rochester, N.Y., conducts a Service Department for amateur photographers which gladly gives free information on any subject in photography, and if desired will offer constructive and helpful criticism of negatives and prints sent them.

The Eastman Kodak Company also publishes the following books for which a fee is charged:

How to Make Good Pictures; The Fundamentals of Photography; Elementary Photographic Chemistry.