Sutterley & Rendall

JAMES KIMBALL (KEMBLE) SUTTERLEY (SUTTERLY)(1834 -1883) & STEPHEN ARNOLD RENDALL (1832-1905) Sutterly & Rendall (active in Petaluma September 24, 1870 – February 1871). Sutterley worked as a daguerreian with his brother, Clement Sutterley, in Chicago from 1857 to 1860. By 1862 the brothers had moved West working as itinerant photographers throughout Nevada, Idaho, Utah and California. They eventually parted ways, and on September 24, 1870, James Kimball Sutterley partnered with Stephen Arnold Rendall taking over the Petaluma studio of Bryan R. Johnson which was currently being operated by Richard Reece Percival. J. K. Sutterley partnered with Stephen A. Rendall to establish, “Sutterly & Rendall, Photographers, Main Street, Petaluma, Cal.” They advertised their services in the Petaluma Weekly Argus between October 22, 1870 and February 4, 1871. They worked together until 1871 when the studio was sold to Richard Reece Percival. As early as 1873, Rendall was living in Santa Rosa with his family raising prizing-winning Angora goats. He established a photography studio in Santa Rosa which was destroyed by fire in June 1878.

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