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Olan Mills, Inc. was a privately owned American company founded in 1932 by Olan Mills Sr. and Mary Mills which was headquartered in Chattanooga, Tennessee.It provided portrait photography and church directories through its two main corporate divisions: Olan Mills Portrait Studios and Olan Mills Church Division.
On November 9, 2011, Lifetouch Inc. announced that it had purchased the remaining assets of Olan Mills Photography, which included both its church directory and retail studio businesses. [36] In 2013, Lifetouch purchased many of the assets of shuttered competitor CPI Corp., who had operated retail portrait studios in Sears and Walmart stores. [37]
In 1932, Mills and his wife launched their business in Selma, Alabama. They used an old shed which they converted into a darkroom. [2] To improve business they started going door-to-door. In 1938, the couple opened its first permanent studio, located in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. The first Olan Mills plant opened in 1940 in Springfield, Ohio.
Olan Mills may refer to: Olan Mills, a photography studio chain; Olan Mills Sr. (1904 – 1978), American photographer and founder of Olan Mills photography
Olan (mountain), a mountain in the Massif des Écrins in the French Alps (3564 m) Olan (dish), a dish that is part of the Kerala cuisine of South India; Olan Mills Portrait Studios, Olan Studios (photographic) Saint Olan (or Olann), patron Saint of the Parish of Aghabullogue in Ireland; Olan Montgomery (1963–2020), American pop-artist
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Portraits, Inc., is the world's oldest and largest commissioned portrait company. [1] Founded in New York City in 1942, Portraits, Inc. specializes in commissioned paintings or sculptures . [ 2 ] Today the agency represents over 100 of today's commissioned portrait artists .