E. G. Renesch
American illustrator, 1879–1957
In 1909, he was marketing "the smallest printed New Testament in the world, smaller than a postage stamp" in The Youth's Companion (Aug. 19. 1909). In the teens he was listed as Secretary of Peoples Portrait & Frame Co. in Chicago, which advertised itself as a manufacturer and wholesaler of "Portraits, Frames, Oil Paintings—Art Pictures—post cards, Stereoscopes, etc." in Commercial America/Philadelphia Commercial Museum (v.6-7, 1909-1911). In a Spanish-language publication (América) from 1914, the company offered more than 300 ready-to-hang prints, including landscapes, religious images, domestic scenes, and African American subjects. Among the prints the company sold were images of Booker T. Washington and a marriage certificate picturing an African American couple. During World War I they sold patriotic prints, including ones inscribed with Renesch's name.
Renesch was working as a real estate developer in Chicago by the 1920s.
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