Rendall, Stephen Arnold

petaluma argus, January 28, 1862, p.3.

STEPHEN ARNOLD RENDALL worked alone 1860 in Petaluma, later he partnered with James Kimball Sutterley in a parternship named Sutterley & Rendall.

Petaluma Photography Studio: Itinerant - set up tent - include steam-punk newspaper ad

JAMES KIMBALL SUTTERLEY (b. c. 1834, New Jersey) & STEPHEN ARNOLD RENDALL (dates unknown) Sutterley & Rendall (active in Petaluma September 24, 1870 – 1871) Sutterley worked as a daguerreian with his brother, Clement Sutterley, in Chicago from 1857 to 1860. By 1862 they had moved West working as itinerant photographers throughout Nevada, Idaho, Utah, and California. Taking over the Petaluma studio of Bryan R. Johnson on September 24, 1870, J. K. Sutterley partnered with Stephen A. Rendall to establish, “Sutterley & Rendall, Photographers, Main Street, Petaluma, Cal.” They worked together until 1871 when the studio was sold to Richard Reece Percival. Palmquist, pgs. 454, 533-537; Mautz, pgs. 135 & 146.

Bibliography: Carl Mautz, Biographies of Western Photographers, A Reference Guide to Photographers Working in the 19th Century American West, Expanded and Revised Edition, 2018, p.173. https://digital.sonomalibrary.org/about/photographers