Scope and Contents
Conditions Governing Access
Conditions Governing Use
Processing History
Preferred Citation
Biographical Note
Contributing Institution:
Library and Archives at the Autry
Title: Frederic Hamer Maude Lectures
Creator:
Maude, F. H. (Frederic Hamer)
Identifier/Call Number: MS.255
Physical Description:
6 Linear Feet
(7 boxes)
Date (inclusive): Circa 1909-1960
Abstract: The collection consists of the hand-written lectures by photographer, Frederic Hamer Maude from approximately 1909-1960. The
lectures were presented along with series of photographs by Maude, taken throughout California, the Southwest and northwestern
regions of North America. Frederic Hamer Maude was a commercial and landscape photographer based in Los Angeles. He born on
November 2, 1858, at Little Mollington, Cheshire, England and died sometime between 1959 and 1960 in Santa Monica. Maude arrived
in the United States after 1887, leaving England and his medical practice. He settled in Los Angeles, working as a commercial
photographer.
Language of Material:
English
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Scope and Contents
The collection consists of the handwritten lectures by photographer, Frederic Hamer Maude from approximately 1909-1960. The
lectures were presented along with series of photographs by Maude, taken throughout California, the Southwest and northwestern
regions of North America.
Conditions Governing Access
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright has not been assigned to the Autry Museum of the American West. All requests for permission to publish or quote
from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Research Services and Archives. Permission for publication is
given on behalf of the Autry Museum of the American West as the custodian of the physical items and is not intended to include
or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
Processing History
Finding aid completed by Anna Liza Posas 2013, made possible by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records
Commission (NHPRC). Finding aid revised by Angel Diaz, Cataloger for the Metabolic Studios Grant Project, 2013 October.
Preferred Citation
Frederic Hamer Maude Lectures, circa 1909-1960, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS.255; [folder number]
[folder title][date].
Biographical Note
Frederic Hamer Maude was born on 1858 November 2 at Little Mollington, Cheshire, England. He was the ninth of eleven children
born to Thomas James Maude and Louisa Emily Hamer. Thomas James Maude was a civil engineer who went into semi-retirement shortly
after getting married. Frederic Maude and his brothers were educated at Rugby and then at Highgate. Frederic Maude went on
to study at Cambridge and the University of Aberdeen, and he received a degree in medicine in 1883.
Maude arrived in the United States after 1887, leaving England and his medical practice, and was in Ventura, California by
1889. He settled in Los Angeles, working as a commercial photographer. He made his first trip to the Grand Canyon in 1895
after having been asked by George Wharton James to replace him on a photographic expedition. The trip inspired his landscape
photography of the American Southwest, including Death Valley, Zion National Park, Bryce National Park, Arizona, and New Mexico.
Maude also continued his commercial photography work with his business, Pacific Stereopticon.
Maude never married. According to varying sources, Maude died in Santa Monica sometime between 1959 and 1960.
References:
Maurer, Stephen G. (1985) "Frederic Hamer Maude: Photographer of the Southwest".
Masterkey, Spring.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Water use -- California
Lectures and lecturing
Yosemite Valley (Calif.)
Grand Canyon (Ariz.)
Mojave Desert (Calif.) -- Description and travel
Owens Valley (Calif.)
Hopi Indians
Zuni Pueblo (N.M.)
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
Indians of North America
Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Acoma Pueblo (N.M.)
Navajo Indians
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Photographs
Photographers -- California, Southern -- Biography