Peter R. Penczer

Peter R. Penczer was assistant archivist and curator at the B.F. Saul Company in Bethesda, Md., for more than eight years. He worked with curator James M. Goode to write a company history and developed and installed a dozen exhibits on Washington history for properties including the Hay-Adams hotel and the Kennedy-Warren apartments. These exhibits were published as Capital Views by Smithsonian Books in 2012.

Peter has been a freelance picture researcher since 1996 for corporate and government clients. He has searched dozens of libraries, historical societies, and archives for photographs for book projects, documentary films, and exhibits.