Blanche Reineke

Emma Blanche Reineke (January 8, 1863 – August 9, 1935) was an American photographer based in Kansas City, Missouri.

[4] "I never attempt to pose children before the camera," she explained, "because their every movement is full of unconscious, unaffected grace.

"[5] Portraits of children by Reineke were exhibited in the Temple of Childhood at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915.

[6] Reineke was elected president of the Women's Federation of the Photographers Association of America in 1913 and 1915, but declined the position both times.

[2] In 1910, she attended the Third National Conservation Congress, held in Washington, D.C.[13] In 1922, she was living on a small farm in Shawnee, Kansas.

A portrait of writer Winifred Black (1869-1936) by Blanche Reineke