Hello, I missed the original posting on a photographer, named LORING, so I don't know if the well-known photography studios in the 1960's, etc., named "Loring Studios" has been discussed. I was just wondering if they were separate photography-studios - or one and the same ! I just did a quick Google search and couldn't find a web site for Loring Studios, but I did find them mentioned on this web page: Ahhh...that reminds me of a story: how to clear out a professional multi-station darkroom in under 2 minutes. Back in the early 60's, I worked in the lab for Loring Studios - an east-coast U.S. portrait studio chain. They had about 25 studios throughout the east, and the lab did the processing and printing for all of them. Most of the work was machine-processed, but some of the better (read: more expensive) work was hand-done. At this point, I was the guy doing the developing of all the non-machine work. This ranged from yearbook candids (quickly .............. Also, I know there would be a lot of debate on this subject, and, depending on how important the "old photograph" is, but one suggestion was given to my mother many years ago: If the photographer's name is printed in a very bottom corner of a photograph, very carefully, very neatly trim the name off ! And, if you want very special reproductions of a "wonderful old photo," you probably wouldn't want to "do it yourself," but those "make copies of photos yourself at the local pharmacies" - don't do such a bad job ! I just finished looking at the web sites for "Loring Studios" and found a comment by someone who said that he made some good copies of an old photo from Loring Studios by scanning it and printing it out on "photography paper" (kind sold in office-supply stores). In the same discussion, someone said that, unless stated otherwise on the photo, after 25 years, something like a "yearbook photo" is no longer copyrighted. I saw references to "Loring Studios" up until about the 1980's, and someone saying they thought the studio went out of business since then ! And, if they are out of business, there is not a copyright problem ! Hope this helps ! Betty (near Lowell, MA) (I just checked my high school yearbook and those photos were taken by "Purdy Studios" in Boston.)