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

History[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

1932: Robert Haviland Thompson, President
Evan Evans, President

Selected employees[edit]

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

Selected photographers[edit]

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[edit]

^ "Broadway Photographs – Photography and the American Scene: Studio, Moffett". By David S. Shields/ALS. University Of South Carolina

[SC-Studio-Moffett-1] "Broadway Photographs – Photography and the American Scene: Studio, Moffett". By David S. Shields/ALS. University Of South Carolina

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