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NameLast: Pease
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CreatedDate: 10/30/2021 5:47:53 PM
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OriginalNotes: In 2003 FOUND Magazine editor Jason Bitner had lunch in a La Porte Indiana diner (B&J American Café, owned by Billie and John Pappas, who rescued the Pease portraits when they bought the property at 607 Lincolnway) where over 18,000 studio portraits made by Pease at his Muralcraft Studio were being given away. The portraits were made over 3 decades. Bitner ended up with the photographs and wrote the book "LaPorte, Indiana." Please had worked above the café making portraits spanning four decades. From the La Porte Herald Argus "Portraits of LaPorteans," 10 Feb. 2006: "The Pappases set the pictures out in the café in 1997. For nearly 15 years, the photos were stored on the third floor of the building, which has been in the Pappas family since the 1930s. The photos may be purchasesd for 50 cents apiece. Several line the walls of the old-fashioned restaurant. Bitner purchased 300 photos for that price, then whittled the number down to 160 to use in the book. We thought the photos were valuable and didn't want to throw them away. We want them to go to as many people who know the people in the photographs as possible."

http://laportebook.typepad.com/news/photos/ [viewed 1 July 2013]
Frank C. Pease was born in LaPorte, Indiana, on August 10, 1900.  In his youth, the always-curious Pease left LaPorte, Indiana, for Florida, where he spent time as an assistant lion tamer in a circus.  Pease's granddaughter, Jari Garton-Gift, fondly recalls how Gladys (Pease's wife, whom he married in 1925) never knew which characters would show up for dinner when the circus came to town: "Sometimes it was the lion-tamer, and sometimes it was a circus midget named Tea Hutton."  Growing up, Pease showed promise as a visual artist, particularly as a painter, and held jobs as a crime scene photographer, newspaper cartoonist, and chief of photography at the Kingsbury Ordnance Plant (KOP), a large munitions factory.  But, at some point in the 1940s (the exact date is still unknown), Pease opened his own business, Muralcraft Studios.

Pease owned and operated Muralcraft Studios, a local photography studio that specialized in portraits, for two-and-a-half decades; Gladys helped Frank prepare people for their portraits and, once the photos were taken, helped colorize photographs.  Pease would spend the 1950s and 1960s taking thousands of portraits in this studio.  After Pease closed the studio, he donated his photography equipment to the local high school.

Pease passed away in the September 1970, leaving an incredible archive of Midwestern portraits, becoming an accidental historian of LaPorte, Indiana.
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OriginalSource: In 2003 FOUND Magazine editor Jason Bitner had lunch in a La Porte Indiana diner (B&J American Café, owned by Billie and John Pappas, who rescued the Pease portraits when they bought the property at 607 Lincolnway) where over 18,000 studio portraits made by Pease at his Muralcraft Studio were being given away. The portraits were made over 3 decades. Bitner bought some of  the photographs and wrote the book "LaPorte, Indiana." Pease had worked above the café making portraits spanning four decades. From the La Porte Herald Argus "Portraits of LaPorteans," 10 Feb. 2006: "The Pappases set the pictures out in the café in 1997. For nearly 15 years, the photos were stored on the third floor of the building, which has been in the Pappas family since the 1930s. The photos may be purchased for 50 cents apiece. Several line the walls of the old-fashioned restaurant. Bitner purchased 300 photos for that price, then whittled the number down to 160 to use in the book. We thought the photos were valuable and didn't want to throw them away. We want them to go to as many people who know the people in the photographs as possible."
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