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Moffett Studio was an American photographic production company based in Chicago.

History

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  • Moffett Studio began as a partnership between real estate developer Evan Albert Evans (1871–1961) and camera artist George Moffett in 1905.[1]
  • The arrest by the F.B.I. of studio employee Earnest D. Wallis for possession of photographs of classified plans for the A bomb in 1947 fatally damaged the studio's reputation.
  • In the 1940s, Underwood & Underwood sold Moffett Studio to the partnership of Robert T. McKearnan and Jack Russell.
  • 1983: National Color Laboratories, Inc., of Roselle, New Jersey, acquired the assets of Moffett Studios Inc. of Chicago
  • Around 1984: National Color Labs became private under a stock buy-back by a Employees Stock Ownership Plan and the principal stock holders.

Incorporation

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  • November 1908, Chicago
Capital $30,000
Description: General photographic and art business
Incorporators: Wilfred W. Barker (born Jan 1880), John T. Evans, C.F. Grassie
  • April 1910, Chicago
Capital $50,000
Description: Manufacturing and dealing in portraits, paintings, frames, and art goods
Incorporators: Wilfred W. Barker (born Jan 1880), John T. Evans, Edgar H. Walker
  • 1957
Plaintiffs for Moffett Studio:
Edmund Jerome McKearnan, Sr. (1899–1973)
Robert Thomas McKearnan (1923–1997), son of Thomas Joseph McKearnan (1893–1970)
Edmund Jerome McKearnan, Jr. (born 1926)
  • 1970
Thomas Joseph McKearnan (1893–1970), past president
  • 1983
Moffett Studio Corp., Chicago
  • June 19, 1984
Moffett Studios, Inc.
Involuntary dissolution June 1, 1998

Executives

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  • 1932: Robert Haviland Thompson, President
  • Evan Evans, President

Selected employees

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  • Clifford William Peterson (born July 8, 1908 Chicago)
  • Frank Y. Simontis (born May 13, 1904, Chicago)

Selected photographers

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  • W. Park Cooper
  • Mrs. Sterling Marten
  • George Oakley Hinchliffe (1890–1973)
  • Paul R. Stone
  • Russell J. McLaughlin, Vice President and Chief Photographer for 10 years at Moffett Studio
  • William Vernon Riley (1892–1967)

Notes and references

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