n other projects, which would
have been genuine contributions.

We have also been saddened by the death of Richard H. Rice, which occurred
last February and cost the country one of its wisest industrial leaders.
Becoming manager of the Lynn Works of the General Electric Company during
a great strike, he had made them famous for productive cooperation. His
methods have been generally copied; and the confidence and support of his
twelve thousand workmen and women were due to his devotion and his
inviolable sense of justice.

Photography was his refuge from pressing affairs. With the engineer's
skill and interest in processes and a keen love of natural beauty, he
produced during his last decade half a hundred landscape studies of a
reticent and enduring beauty. The scant leisure of his last winter had
been spent in preparing these for exhibition, and they remain as a
characteristic memorial to an unusual personality.

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In this book, our third Pictorial Annual, we offer the choice of our Jury
from nearly a thousand prints, selected without regard to membership in
the organization and solely with the intention of exhibiting the best that
America can produce. We are grateful to all who have contributed, whether
successfully or not, for their encouragement and support, often by letter
as well as by entries; to the Jury of Selection for their careful,
painstaking judgment; to our Committee on Publication for its detailed and
arduous work; to our engravers and printers for their preparation and
presentation of our material; to all, in fact, who have cooperated in
making _Pictorial Photography in America for 1922_ a good record of
current American Photographic Art.

AMASA DAY CHAFFEE, _President._
The Art Center
Sixty-five East Fifty-sixth Street,
New York City.
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