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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)