Marie Hartig Kendall

Marie Hartig Kendall (1854–1943) was an American photographer. Her portrait photography and landscapes documented the Norfolk, Connecticut, area in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in the Alsace region of France, she immigrated to the United States with her family and trained as a nurse at Bellevue Hospital in New York. A self-taught photographer, during her lifetime Kendall made over 30,000 photographic negatives after first acquiring a view camera in the 1880s. She won an award for photography at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. She sold her photographs as postcards and to the New Haven Railroad for their publicity campaigns. Among her photographs were some depicting the Great Blizzard of 1888.

Early life, education and family Marie Hartig was born in 1854 in Mulhouse, France, she refused to have a wedding ring, deeming it a symbol of women's enslavement and suggested that a watch would "be more suitable". They moved to Norwalk, Connecticut, and started a family. Their first three children were Karolina (also Lena, born 1880), Helen (born 1881), and Cyrus (born 1882). Their eldest, Lena, was maimed in a scalding accident and died before her second birthday. The New Haven Railroad used her photographs in their publicity campaigns.

The Norfolk Historical Society holds over 3000 of Kendall's prints, hundreds of glass-plate negatives, and photo albums she put together. She was the subject of a 2018 exhibition by the Norfolk Historical Society, Artistic Taste and Marked Skill: The Photography of Marie H. Kendall, the same year that the historical society published the accompanying book A Remarkable Legacy: The Photographs of Marie Hartig Kendall.