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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. Mills died at his home in Dallas on April 15, 1978, from head injuries sustained in a fall. [3]
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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.
Springfield is a city in and the county seat of Clark County, Ohio, United States. [5] The municipality is located in southwestern Ohio and is situated on the Mad River, Buck Creek, and Beaver Creek, about 45 miles (72 km) west of Columbus and 25 miles (40 km) northeast of Dayton.
Developed during Springfield's industrial growth of the 1850s to the 1920s, the South Fountain Avenue Historic District encompasses about 15 square blocks south of downtown Springfield, across the street from South High School. Among its prominent early residents were Oliver S. Kelly, [1] William N. Whiteley, and Francis Bookwalter. [2]
Springfield was founded in 1800, [2]: 129 but for its first half-century of existence, the land now included within the district was used for agricultural purposes. [2]: 458 However, by the 1840s, Springfield had grown eastward from its original core, and the brothers Gustavus and William Foos platted some of their land along High Street for residential purposes in 1848.
Crete Hutchinson was managing the Washington, D.C. studio in the 1920s. [2] [3] Bachrach Studio had forty-eight locations throughout the United States at its height in 1929. [1] During the Great Depression, Bachrach scaled down the company and sold the Texas studios to Gittings. Bachrach Studios remains a family business as of 2024. [4]
White House Curator William G. Allman discusses the inspiration behind Shikler's 1970 portrait of John F. Kennedy. Aaron Abraham Shikler (March 18, 1922 – November 12, 2015) was an American artist noted for portraits of American statesmen, such as the official portrait of John F. Kennedy, and celebrities such as Jane Engelhard and Sister Parish.