The Byron Company is a New York City photography studio in Manhattan that was founded in 1892 by Joseph BYRON. Born in London in 1847, he became a commercial photographer, and moved to USA. He took on as his partner his son, Percy Claude BYRON. Since 1917 Percy specialized in maritime photography and lived on Staten Island. The studio was considered as one of New York's pre-eminent commercial photography studios that documented the essence of New York City life. Joseph BYRON died in 1923. In 1942 Percy closed the family studio because of World War II. He then went to work for the Essex Art Engraving Company of Newark, New Jersey until he retired in December 1958 because of his ill health. He died the next year.