Maynard family research files, BC Archives. (See files "PAC Notes (File 6)", "Maynard, Lillian E. [Daughter of Albert] File 14," “Maynard Family (File 27),” “Maynard, Albert H (File 9),” as well as Claire Wilks photographic research material for the publication “The Magic Box” and “West Shore Contest Oct 1890 (File 4)” and “Richard Maynard: Photographer of B.C. (File 18)”).
Indigenous Audio-Visual Collections. Indigenous Collections and Repatriation Department. Royal BC Museum. (See files PN 6092 re: Lady Franklin Rock and the composite image “Some of the Many Scenes of British Columbia by R. Maynard”).
Library collection, BC Archives.
MS-3328 –Photographic View Album by R. Maynard, PR-1259.
PR-3334 – Photographic View Album of Mrs. A.H. Maynard, PR-1259.
PR-1365 - Agnes Deans Cameron fonds. See “Gem Begonia” for 1892 (HP092015, accession 198207-008).
Newcombe Family Photograph Collection (VR 197812-016).
Stó:lō Research and Resource Management Centre. Last accessed on September 20, 2018 at http://www.srrmcentre.com/upriver_tour
Indigenous Collections and Repatriation Policy. Royal BC Museum. Revised August 2018.
Protocols for Native American Archival Materials. First Archivist Circle. 2007.
Indigenous Repatriation Handbook. Royal BC Museum and Haida Gwaii Museum at Kay Llnagaay. 2019.
Archives code(s): MS-2951
Accession number(s): [95-7328]
The album includes the award-winning landscape view, "The Arm", for which Richard Maynard won first prize in the professional class in West Shore magazine in October of 1890 (later also credited to Hannah Maynard in St. Louis & Canadian Photographer that same year).
Lillian (Lillie) Elizabeth Maynard was born in 1884 in Victoria, British Columbia and is the daughter of Albert Hatherley and Adelaide Maynard. Her grandparents on her father’s side were well-known Victoria-based photographers Richard Maynard and Hannah of Mrs. R. Maynard’s Photographic Gallery (1862? – 1912). Her grandparents on her mother’s side included James Graham. Her siblings include sister Mabel Price Maynard (b.1880) and brothers John Ridgemen Maynard (b.1879) and Richard James Maynard (b. 1881). After her mother died in her early thirties in 1892, her father married again to Violet Graham in 1914. Like her grandparents and father, Lillian was interested in photography. While in her 20s, Lillian E. Maynard worked as a bookkeeper to her father in Victoria. In 1932, her father Albert Maynard was reported by the Daily Colonist to have transferred leadership of his photographic partnership to L. E. Maynard. She died in 1966 in Victoria.
Published
Title based on the content of the file.
The album has been disbound. There is acid free interleaving between each page.
File consists of one family album containing a black leather cover with gold embossing on the cover and 91 photographic prints of various sizes adhered to forty-nine black album pages. Lillian E. Maynard’s life, family, and friends are documented through portrait and landscape photographs as well as newspaper clippings. Members of the Maynard family are depicted including Lillian’s brother Richard James Maynard; Katie Adelaide and her sons Albert, Robert, and Jack Walker; and unidentified infants, babies, children and adults. Landscapes include views of Saanich (Saanich Inlet, Island Highway Saanich Road, Little Cadboro Bay), Oak Bay (McNeill Bay, Willows Beach), Elk Lake, Jordon River, Cameron Lake, Colwood, Courtney, Sooke (Inner Sooke Harbour “Saseenos”) and Mount Baker. The album features a small number of Victoria tourist views including Belmont House at the Parliament buildings, Dunsmuir Castle, Butchart Gardens, Victoria Harbour, and the C.P.R. docks (1927). Near the end of the album are three of Hannah and Richard Maynard’s photographs, including Richard's award-winning landscape view, "The Arm", and two of Hannah’s annual “Gems of British Columbia" composite photographs. The album concludes with a newspaper article "Carry a Camera It Pays, says Fair Motorist" from The Daily Colonist, April 1919. It contains news coverage of a car crash involving Lillian and Richard and features images of the crash, Lillian, and her Kodak camera. In the article, she is credited for documenting the incident and later using the photographic evidence in court.
The album cover is missing its back cover. There are nine empty pages; some pages appear to have had prints removed. Many of the prints are adhered to album pages which limits access to information that may be captured on the verso.
The custodial history is unknown. Record was found in the BC Archives in 2012.
* ELUNDGRE 2012-04-23. Archivist(s) Responsible: Katy Hughes
* Revised: ECURTIS 2018-09-21, 2019-08-21, 2019-11-15
* Revised: LFRASER 2022-03-24, 2022-03-31
Also see: Gems of British Columbia for 1885 (J-04555); The ‘Gem’ Begonia. Happy New Year. 1892 (J-01891); Montage photograph featuring photos by Richard Maynard (J-04572); 80 views on the Frazer River (F-09989), Views of British Columbia; composite (B-04967)
Also see: PR-2365 Medals, Tokens and Numismatic Collection for materials relating to Richard Maynard’s 1890 award received for the Victoria landscape view, "The Arm".
Related materials
Newspaper articles from the Victoria Daily Colonist and The Daily Colonist relating to Richard and Hannah Maynard as well as Mrs. R. Maynard’s Photographic Gallery, including “Worked Here for 50 Years” (Victoria Daily Colonist. Sept. 29, 1912) and “Carry a Camera It Pays, Says Fair Motorist” (The Daily Colonist, Victoria, B.C., Sunday, April 20, 1919) are held by the Victoria Times Colonist. Digital access is available at https://britishcolonist.ca/index.html
For more information about Lady Franklin Rock, Fraser River see Stó:lō Library and Archives, Stó:lō Research and Resource Management Centre.
There are no access restrictions.
For conservation reasons, access provided to original is limited. Researchers should consult the online reference image prior to consulting the original.
All photographs are in the public domain.