Maynard, Hannah Hatherly^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]}

1834 - 1918  (84 years)

• Name	Maynard, Hannah Hatherly
  Born	17 Jan 1834	Bude, Cornwall, Eng., UK
  Gender	Female
  Business Address/Year	1862?-1874	Victoria, BC
  	Address: Johnson St. corner of Douglas St. Victoria, BC Canada
  Business Address/Year	1874-1892	Victoria, BC
  	Address: Douglas St. corner of Johnson St. Victoria, BC Canada
  Business Address/Year	1892-1912	Victoria, BC
  	renumbered to 717 Pandora ca. 1907
  	Address: 41 Pandora Ave. Victoria, BC Canada
  Buried	18? May 1918	Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria, BC   [10]
  Died	15 May 1918	Victoria, BC   [10]
  Association	Maynard, Richard (Relationship: Spouse)
  Association	Maynard Albert Hatherly (Relationship: Mother)
  Association	Rappertie, Arthur Stewart (Relationship: Employer)
  Association	Hendricks, Nicholas Herman (Relationship: Employer)
  Association	Macdonald, Emma (Relationship: Mother)
  Association	Macdonald, Emma (Relationship: Employee?)
  Association	Dally, Frederick (Relationship: Undefined)
  Person ID	I434	Camera Workers | M, vol. 1, 1858-1900
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2019

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Mrs. R. Maynard, Artist, stamp on bottom of mounted photograph taken by Richard Maynard at Wrangel, Alaska, 1879 06 14
  		Photographer Richard Maynard with his field camera. Photographed in his wife's (Hannah Hatherly Maynard) studio. Image courtesy of BC Archives, Visual Records call no. F-06336.
  		Hannah and Richard Maynard's adjoining businesses, Douglas and Johnson streets, Victoria. Richard relocated his boot and shoe business from Fort Street to this location around May 1874. Image courtesy of BC Archives, Visual Records call no. A-00853 (HP001820).
  		Hannah (Mrs. R.) Maynard's first studio, Johnson St. (left side), Victoria. Image courtesy of BC Archives, Visual Records call no. C-09031.
  		Hannah and Richard Maynard's camera float on Pandora Avenue for a Victoria parade. Image courtesy of BC Archives, Visual Records call no. F-05137.
  		Maynard Building, Pandora Avenue, Victoria. A stereo photograph, this building housed Richard's boot and shoe business and Hannah's portrait studio. Image courtesy of BC Archives, Visual Records call no. G-04812.
  		Maynard building, Pandora Avenue, Victoria, interior. Richard Maynard on the left. The stereographoscope, used for viewing stereographs and mounted single photographs, seen on the left in BC Archives, Visual Records call no. C-08996, is visible in this photo. Image courtesy of BC Archives, Visual Records call no. C-08870.
  		Maynard building, Pandora Avenue, Victoria, interior. The stereographoscope, used for viewing stereographs and mounted single photographs, seen on the left in BC Archives, Visual Records call no. C-08870, is visible in this photo. Image courtesy of BC Archives, Visual Records call no. C-08996.

  
  

  Documents » Slide Show		Mrs. R. Maynard cartouche from the verso of a mounted photograph, ca. 1893. Image courtesy of BC Archives, Visual Records catalogue no. HP000235.
  		Mrs. R. Maynard cartouche from verso of a mounted photograph, 1879 08 20. The photograph depicts the SS Princess Louise side-paddle steamer docked at Comox. Image courtesy of BC Archives, Visual Records catalogue no. HP000404.
  		Mrs. R. Maynard cartouche from the verso of a mounted photograph. From a private collection.
  		Mrs. R. Maynard cartouche from the verso of a mounted photograph. From a private collection.
  		Mrs. R. Maynard's ad, Colonist (Victoria), 1874 10 23.
  		Mrs. R. Maynard marketed photographs of the 1868 Fanny shipwreck taken on 24 Mar 1868. Although the newspaper claimed they were taken by her, they were likely taken by her husband Richard, Colonist, 1868 03 25/3.
  		Mrs. R. Maynard's "Gems of British Columbia" newspaper notice. Colonist (Victoria), 1881 12 25/3.

  
  

  Headstones » Slide Show		Hannah Maynard's gravestone closeup, Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria, BC.
  		Hannah Maynard's gravestone base, Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria, BC.
  		Hannah Maynard's gravestone, Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria, BC.

  
  

• Notes

  STATUS: Commercial. BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Married in 1852 to Richard Maynard, she emigrated to the Colony of Vancouver Island with her family in 1862. Although no direct evidence has been located, it is believed she opened Mrs. R. Maynard's Photographic Gallery the same year. Primarily a portrait photographer, she boasted upon her retirement in 1912 of having photographed just about everyone who passed through Victoria. She and Richard made a few trips together (dates and destinations of these trips together are 1875 [San Francisco], 1879 [Vancouver Island pleasure cruise], 1887 and/or 1889 [Banff], 1888 [Queen Charlotte Islands]). Both practiced landscape photography it is not always clear, though their work was marketed under separate imprints, exactly who took which photographs. Hannah also experimented with novelty techniques such as photosculpture (persons made to resemble statues), multiple exposure tricks, and composite imagery. Her probate, executed by her son Albert, says she disposed of her equipment about 1910 to a Chinese photographer named Peter on Government St. Albert donated her studio register to the BC Archives in 1933 (accession 742), and also disposed of all negatives to the BC Archives by donation or sale at various dates. About the only other personal or business record by Hannah preserved by the BC Archives is an account of the 1879 trip around Vancouver Island. Victoria playwright Janet Munsil's play Be Still about Hannah Maynard premiered at Richmond's Gateway Theatre on 1 Mar 2001 and opened at Victoria's Belfry Theatre on 14 Mar 2001. For an assessment of Hannah Maynard's role in the development of the arts within Victoria by women, see the exhibit catalogue edited by Karen A. Finlay, "A Woman's Place" (University of Victoria, Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery (2004). IDENTIFYING MARKS: "Mrs. R. Maynard Photographic Artiste Johnson Street, Near Douglas, Victoria, V.I. B.C." on verso of carte-de-visite (2 styles). "Mrs. R. Maynard, Photographic Artiste, Douglass [sic] St., Victoria, V.I., B.C." on verso of carte-de-visite (2 styles). "From Mrs. R. Maynard's Photographic Studio, cor. Douglas & Johnson Sts., Victoria, B.C." on verso of print mount (various styles). "Mrs. R. Maynard, Photographer, 41 ½ Pandora Avenue, Near Douglas Street Victoria, B.C." on verso of print mount. The bottom front of the print mount may also be marked "Mrs. R. Maynard, Victoria, B.C." or "Mrs. R. Maynard, Artiste." REFERENCES: City directories; Hannah and Richard are first listed in MAL68; newspapers; tax assessments; photographs all at BVIPA

  
  

• Sources

  [S46] COLLECTION: BVIPA. Glass negatives, prints, albums, negative register [S666] BVIPA archival records. Probate file GR-1304, file 105/18 [S666] BVIPA archival records. MS-1077, Newcombe Collection [S2] Mattison (1980 10), Mattison, David, (Vanguard 9, no. 8 (October 1980):14-19). [S497] Wilks (1980), Claire Weissman Wilks, (Toronto: Exile Editions, 1980). [S935] Times-Colonist, B6, 14 Jan 2001. Review of Janet Munsil's play Be Still [S602] Mattison (2003), David Mattison, (Times-Colonist, January 12, 2003, p. D11 (Monitor/Islander section)). [S522] University of Victoria, Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery (2004), K.A. Finlay, ed., (Victoria, B.C.: Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, 2004). [S364] Neering (2006), Rosemary Neering, (British Columbia Magazine 48, no. 4 (Winter [November] 2006):50-57). [S652] BVIPA death registration index. Registration no. 1918-09-037846; digital facsimile URL (accessed 23 Jan 2017): http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/731b5620-844f-4ed8-88d6-d2fcd2a46e4c