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

History

 * Moffett Studio began as a partnership between real estate developer Evan Albert Evans (1871–1961) and camera artist George Moffett in 1905.


 * 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

 * 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

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

Selected employees

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

Selected photographers

 * 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)