Frederic Hamer Maude Lectures, Circa 1909-1960

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Summary

Creators:
Maude, F. H. (Frederic Hamer)
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.
Extent:
6 Linear Feet (7 boxes)
Language:
English .
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].

Background

Scope and content:

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.

Biographical / historical:

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.

Processing information:

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.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

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Terms of access:

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.

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].

Location of this collection:
4700 Western Heritage Way
Los Angeles, CA 90027, US
Contact:
(747) 201-8448
rroom@theautry.org
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