Emily Pitchford
American photographer (1878–1956) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emily H. Pitchford (1878–1956) was an American photographer.
Emily H. Pitchford was born in 1878 in Gold Hill, Nevada.[1] She attended the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, now called the San Francisco Art Institute, in the 1890s.[1][2]
Pitchford won a bronze medal at the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition in 1909.[3]
She had a studio with Adelaide Hanscom Leeson in the early 20th century and shared one with Laura Adams Armer in Berkeley, California, as of 1902.[4] As of 1906, she had her own studio in Berkeley.[2] Historian Shelley Rideout describes Pitchford, Leeson, and Armer as pictorialists.[2]
Pitchford married William Leo Hussey, a mining engineer, on June 10, 1911, in Johannesburg.[5][6] They remained in South Africa until 1921 and then came back to Berkeley.[1] She died in Berkeley in 1956.[6]
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