Emily H. Pitchford (1878–1956) was an American photographer. Emily H. Pitchford was born in 1878 in

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. She attended the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, now called the

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, in the 1890s. Pitchford won a bronze medal at the

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in 1909. She had a studio with

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in the early 20th century and shared one with

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, as of 1902. As of 1906, she had her own studio in Berkeley. Historian Shelley Rideout describes Pitchford, Leeson, and Armer as pictorialists. Pitchford married William Leo Hussey, a mining engineer, on June 10, 1911, in

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. They remained in South Africa until 1921 and then came back to Berkeley. She died in Berkeley in 1956.

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* 1878 births 1956 deaths 20th-century American photographers American expatriates in South Africa American women photographers Artists from Berkeley, California People from Storey County, Nevada Pictorialists San Francisco Art Institute alumni {{US-photographer-stub