Camera Workers: British Columbia, Alaska & Yukon, 1858-1950

Camera Workers: The British Columbia, Alaska & Yukon Photographic Directory, 1858-1950 - M - Volume 1 (1858-1900)

Updated: 2001.05.08.

NAME: McArthur, J.J.
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WHERE ACTIVE: Alaska-Canada Boundary.
WORK INTERVAL: 1894.
STATUS: Phototopographer.
SUMMARY: He worked on the International Boundary Commission using photography to compiled landscape data that would subsequently be turned into maps. McArthur was one of the first phototopographers employed by the Dominion Lands Branch along the BC Railway Belt beginning around 1886. According to photohistorian Andrew J. Birrell, it was McArthur who trained six other phototopographers for the Alaska-Canada boundary survey work. Using this method, the Canadian team was able to complete their survey in two years. American surveyors thereafter quickly adopted the Canadian system.
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: OOA (negatives/prints).
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Birrell (1981-82); Hadley (1987).

NAME: McBeth, Robert Andrew.
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WHERE ACTIVE: Rossland.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 23 E. Columbia Ave./1897.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1897.
STATUS: Unknown.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He may be the McBeth of Itter Bros. & McBeth, photographers; he is the only McBeth listed in Rossland.
COLLECTIONS: see Itter Bros. & McBeth.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: see Itter Bros. & McBeth.
REFERENCES: HEN97.

NAME: McCleery, Fitzgerald.
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WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR: Vancouver?/1900.
WORK INTERVAL: 1900.
STATUS: Amateur.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He won a prize for photography at a Richmond fair.
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NAME: McClinton, A.L.
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WHERE ACTIVE: S.S. Rosalie.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: Seattle?, WA.
WHEN ACTIVE: 1898-1899.
STATUS: Amateur.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: One of four sons of Judge J.G. McClinton, Port Townsend, Washington, he worked for the customs service there where he took up photography. Between 1898-1899 he was purser on S.S. Rosalie (owned by the Alaska Steamship Co., 1897-1900) and may have taken views at Juneau, Dyea and Skagway.
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REFERENCES: Jones (1976).

NAME: McClure, ---.
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WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver ; San Francisco, CA.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1889 08.
STATUS: Commercial (visit).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He or his partner Crowell of Crowell & McClure visited Vancouver and were reported to be photographing buildings and streets for a publication about the Pacific Northwest coast of the U.S. and Canada.
COLLECTIONS: see Crowell & McClure.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: see Crowell & McClure.
REFERENCES: see Crowell & McClure.

NAME: McConnell, Richard George
LIFE DATES: 1857-1942
BIRTHPLACE: Chatman, PQ.
PLACE OF DEATH:
STATUS: Amateur.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A younger contemporary of Dr. G.M. Dawson, McConnell studied at McGill University in Montreal. McConnell's exploration of the Yukon for the Geological Survey of Canada beginning in 1887 over a ten-year period produced the first accurate geological maps of the Klondike gold fields. An amateur photographer, it is not known if he produced photographs of his Yukon travels.
Appointed Deputy Minister of Mines in 1914, he retired in 1920. McConnell River, McConnell Peak and McConnell Lake, YT, are all named in honor of his accomplishments.
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REFERENCES: Hall (1967).

NAME: McCullagh, James Benjamin.
LIFE DATES: 1854 __ __-1921 05 01.
BIRTHPLACE: County Down, Ireland.
PLACE OF DEATH: Prince Rupert.
WHERE ACTIVE: Aiyansh.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: by 1900.
STATUS: Amateur.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He was the missionary at Aiyansh and arrived there in 1883 with his first wife. In his Caledonia Interchange McCullagh published an account of the opening of the Kincolith Church "by a Lady Correspondent" who noted that the missionary stopped the procession on its way to the church "while Mr. McCullagh took one or two photographs" (September 30, 1900).
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REFERENCES: Caledonia Interchange, 1900 10 31/8; McCullagh, various writings; Moeran (1923?); Colonist, 1976 09 26/2 & 7.

NAME: McDermaid, Albert.
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WHERE ACTIVE: New Westminster.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: Agnes St. E., near Mary St./1890.
WORK INTERVAL: 1890.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Dempsey has an "A. E. McDairmid" passing through Minnedosa, Man., in September 1887; by 1891 this McDairmid had a studio in Calgary over Thompson's bookstore; he remained in Calgary until 1895.
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REFERENCES: HEN90; Dempsey (1978); Calgary Tribune, 1891 10 07.

NAME: Macdonald, Emma.
VARIANT: Maynard, Emma.
LIFE DATES: 1859? __ __-18__ __ __.
BIRTHPLACE: Bowmanville, Ont.
PLACE OF DEATH: Seattle, Wash.
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria.
WORK INTERVAL: 1880?-1881?.
STATUS: Commercial (assistant).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A daughter of Hannah and Richard Maynard, she was married to James F. Macdonald at the time of the 1881 census. Her age is given as 21, occupation, photographer, no doubt an assistant to her mother or father. She drowned in Seattle before the mid-1890s and her portrait appears in a few of her mother's bizarre multiple exposure tableaux.
REFERENCES: 1881 Dominion Census (OOA microfilm reel C-13285); Mattison (1980 10):14-19; Wilks (1980); BVIPA Visual Records Photographer File.

NAME: McDougall, James.
LIFE DATES: 1843 __ __-1915 06 28.
BIRTHPLACE: Scotland.
PLACE OF DEATH: Victoria.
WHERE ACTIVE: Masset.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: circa 1890.
STATUS: Amateur.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A Hudson's Bay Company agent, he took one or two photos of Masset.
COLLECTIONS: BVIPM; MWHBC.
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REFERENCES: BVIPA E/E/M149 (Reminiscences); BVIPA Death Registration no. 1915-09-030763 (reel B13083); Blackman (1981):62.

NAME: McGregor, J.H.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Photographs were published in the BC Mining Record, October 1899.
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REFERENCES: BC Mining Record (Oct. 1899):__.

NAME: McJury, J.J.
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WHERE ACTIVE: Dyea, AK, via Sheep Camp to Chilkoot Pass?.
WORK INTERVAL: 1898.
STATUS:
SUMMARY:
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: YWA (prints).
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REFERENCES: Yukon Archives no. 1669.

NAME: McKay, H.D.
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WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 2 Cordova St. E. (Graveley-Spinks Building)/1898-1899.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1898-1899.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He was established by September 1898 in J.M. White's old studio which had been designed by Vancouver architect R. Mackay Fripp for White's portrait studio business. Alphonse Savard occupied the studio after McKay.
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REFERENCES: WIL99; Province Souvenir Edition (1898), BVAA Pamphlet 1898-8, p. 61 (halftone of Graveley-Spinks Block) occupied by H.D. McKay.

NAME: McLaren, ---.
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WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 2 Powell St./1890.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1890.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: This person worked for the Stanley Bros.
REFERENCES: HEN90.

NAME: McLean, James B.
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WHERE/WHEN ACTIVE: Cumberland/1898; Union/1899.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1898-1899.
STATUS: Amateur?.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: McLean was listed as an agent for the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway in 1898. A BVIPA photo has the family name McLean on the caption. Halftone illustrations reproduced from his photographs appear in the May 24, 1899 issue of the Cumberland News.
COLLECTIONS: BVIPA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: see above.
REFERENCES: BVIPA photo no. HP055325; HEN98; Cumberland News, 1899 05 24/last page ("...J.B. McLean, photographer, Union, B.C.").

NAME: McMichael, Alfred G.
LIFE DATES: 1858? __ __-____ __ __.
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WHERE ACCTIVE: Dyea, AK/1898-1899?; Yukon?/1901?.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: Detroit, MI/1898; Alaska/1898; Yukon/1898?-1901.
WHEN ACTIVE: 1898-1901?.
STATUS: Commercial?.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: The CD-ROM Klondike Gold states this 40-year old photographer reached Dyea, Alaska, in April 1898 from Detroit, Michigan. He stayed at the Hotel Ballard, a description of which can be found on the CD-ROM.
The Pan for Gold Database shows A.G. McMichael entering the Yukon Territory via the Lake Bennett checkpoint on boat 2328 on June 1, 1898. He is also listed as entering the Yukon at the Chilkoot Pass checkpoint on March 20, 1899. The Pan for Gold Database record on McMichael in the 1901 Canadian Census lists his date of origin in the Yukon as March 20, 1899.
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REFERENCES: Klondike Gold (1996); Pan for Gold Database.

NAME: Macmunn, Charles.
LIFE DATES: 1840?-1903 05 08.
BIRTHPLACE: Manchester?, England, UK.
PLACE OF DEATH: Victoria.
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria ; BC.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Fort St., above Blanshard St./1887 ; 107 John St.?/1890.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: 110 John St./1889 ; 107 John St./1890 ; 106 Oswego St./1891 ; 94 Oswego St./1892-1903.
WORK INTERVAL: 1883-1903.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Listed as "photographer (C.P.R.)" in the 1887 directory, Macmunn's work was among the best produced by several commercial photographers who travelled along the line. The T. N. Hibben & Co. bookstore sold his work as early as 1883 which it described as "Macmunn's Views of Canadian Pacific Railway, Victoria and Surroundings." His name has been variously spelled as "McMunn," "MacMunn," and "McMann." The BVIPA album is an exquisite but incomplete example of his work.
Charles was survived by his wife Margaret, a dressmaker, when he died at the age of 63.
COLLECTIONS: BVIPA; QMMMCM.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: "Charles Macmunn's Views of the Canadian Pacific Railway..." on verso of print.
REFERENCES: MAL87; WIL89; HEN90; HEN91; WIL92; WIL93; WIL94; WIL95; HEN97; HEN98; HEN99; WIL99; HEN00; HEN01; HEN02; HEN03; HEVI08; Hibben (1883); Colonist, 1886 08 31/3; Scientific American Supplement, 1887 11 05:9876-7 (6 photos of "Views on the Canadian Pacific Railway"); Smith (1891-2) (examples of photos); Colonist, 1903 05 09/5 (obit.); Mattison (1997b).

NAME: McMunn, T.
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WORK INTERVAL: 1898-1899.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Photographs were published in the BC Mining Record in February 1899.
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REFERENCES: BC Mining Record(Feb. 1899):25-26.

NAME: Maguffin, John.
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WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 107 John St.?/1890.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: 107 John St./1890.
WORK INTERVAL: 1890.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He lived at the same address as C. Macmunn, so it is likely Maguffin worked for Macmunn.
REFERENCES: Voters List, 1890.

NAME: Malcolm, Kenneth.
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PLACE OF DEATH: WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 160 Cordova St./1892 ; 158-162 Cordova St./1893.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: 35 Hastings St. E./1892 ; 317 Keefer St./1893.
WORK INTERVAL: 1892-1893.
STATUS: Commercial (assistant).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He worked for the Bailey Bros.
REFERENCES: WIL92; WIL93.

NAME: Maris, Omer.
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WHERE ACTIVE: Dyea, AK, via Chilkoot Pass to Yukon River to St. Michael, AK.
WORK INTERVAL: 1896 06 15-07 __.
STATUS: Amateur.
SUMMARY: According to a newspaper review of his journey, this young author of life in North Carolina "carried a large camera and took hundreds of pictures" on his month-long adventure. He recounted his experiences in Sketches from Alaska (1897).
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REFERENCES: Tacoma Sunday Ledger, 1896 08 16/6 ("Down from Alaska"); Maris (1897).

NAME: Mathers, Charles Wesley.
LIFE DATES: 1868 01 09-1950 04 12.
BIRTHPLACE: Lucknow, ON.
PLACE OF DEATH: San Gabriel, CA.
WHERE ACTIVE: Edmonton, AB; Vancouver, BC.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1892 03 12-1921.
STATUS: Commercial.
SUMMARY: C.W. Mathers began his photographic career with the Edmonton branch studio of the Calgary photographic partnership of Boorne & May. According to Alberta photohistorian Brock Silversides, Mathers was Edmonton's only photographer for several years, including the first two years of the Klondike Gold Rush. Mathers never ventured beyond Athabasca Landing, about 100 miles north of Edmonton, during those two crucial years. He photographed many Klondikers, including the first woman to leave Edmonton for the Yukon, Mrs. G.E. (Nellie) Garner of Fresno, California (the J.S. Mack or Fresno Party). It was her portrait taken in the Mathers studio that helped James Michener shape his novel of the gold rush Journey (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1988). In 1901, three years after photographing stampeders departing by boat from Athabasca Landing, Mathers made his own epic journey of discovery along the same rivers followed by some of the Edmonton goldseekers. In the company of a Hudson's Bay Company trader he reached Fort MacPherson on the Peel River, not far as the crow flies from Dawson, and was able to take the first professional photographs of Inuit in the region.
Mathers sold his business in 1904 to Ernest Brown and moved to Vancouver, BC, where he practiced photography sporadically while attempting to collect from Brown on the payment for his business. In 1920 Mathers moved to Taft, California, where he worked briefly as a photographer and then retired to Gardena.
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: Provincial Archives of Alberta (negatives).
IDENTIFYING MARKS: Print surface usually captioned and signed "Photo by Mathers Edmonton" or "Mathers" or "Photo by C.W. Mathers, Edmonton Alta" or "Mathers Vancouver B.C." Ernest Brown retitled and claimed credit for many of Mathers' photographs after Mathers left Edmonton for Vancouver. Sometimes, however, Brown left Mathers' name on the negative.
See also Camera Workers, 1901-1950.
REFERENCES: Provincial Archives of Alberta (1989); Silversides (1990).

NAME: Maynard, Albert Hatherly.
LIFE DATES: 1857 06 06-1934 12 21.
BIRTHPLACE: Bowmanville, ON.
PLACE OF DEATH: Victoria.
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 41 Pandora Ave./1899 ; 41 ½ Pandora Ave./1900.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: 100 John St./1899-1900.
WORK INTERVAL: 1899-1900+.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A son of Richard and Hannah Maynard, he was, like his father, a shoemaker, and took over both his father's photographic and shoe store.
COLLECTIONS: BVIPA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: WIL99; HEN00; Voters List, 1899; Howay & Scholefield (1914):v. 4; 901; see Maynard, Richard; BVIPA Visual Records Photographers File.

Maynard, Emma see Macdonald, Emma.

NAME: Maynard, Hannah Hatherly.
VARIANT: Maynard, Mrs. Richard.
LIFE DATES: 1834 01 17-1918 05 15.
BIRTHPLACE: Bude, Cornwall, UK.
PLACE OF DEATH: Victoria.
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Johnson St., corner of Douglas St./1862?-1874 ; Douglas St., corner of Johnson St./1874-1892 ; 41 Pandora Ave./1892-1900+.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR: see Richard Maynard.
WORK INTERVAL: 1862?-1912.
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.
Victoria playwright Janet Munsil's play Be Still about Hannah Maynard premiered at Richmond's Gateway Theatre on March 1, 2001 and opened at Victoria's Belfry Theatre on March 14, 2001.
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: BVIPA (glass negatives and prints).
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: BVIPA GR-1304, file 105/18; BVIPA MS-1077 (Newcombe Collection); directories (she and Richard are first listed in MAL68); newspapers; tax assessments; photographs; all at BVIPA; Mattison (1980 10); Wilks (1980); Munsil play premiere (http://www.gatewaytheatre.com; http://www.belfry.bc.ca; Times-Colonist, 2001.01.14/B6 [review]).

NAME: Maynard, Richard.
LIFE DATES: 1832 02 22-1907 01 10.
BIRTHPLACE: Stratton, Cornwall, UK.
PLACE OF DEATH: Victoria.
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Fort St./1864-1874 ; Douglas St., corner of Johnson St./1874-1892 ; Pandora Ave./1892-1900+.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR: usually same as business address.
WORK INTERVAL: 1864-1893.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Married in 1852 to Hannah Hatherly, he gave up bootmaking in Bowmanville to mine gold in the Fraser River in 1858-59. Returning to Canada (Ontario) for his family, they sailed via San Francisco on the Sierra Nevada, the same boat which brought F.G. Claudet back to Victoria in March 1862. Richard left his family again that June for the Stikine Territory and the gold fields there. He is reputed to have made a fortune and came back to Victoria where he settled down as a boot and shoe maker and photographer. The earliest known reference to his photography is a panorama he made of Victoria harbour in May 1864. His first trip outside Victoria occurred in 1868 when he took his son Albert to Barkerville. He accompanied Indian Affairs commissioner Dr. I.W. Powell in 1873 on an inspection tour along the east coast of Vancouver Island and the northwest coast of the mainland. The next year found Maynard on another trip with Powell, this time around Vancouver Island. Fog and rain prevented Richard from taking many photographs. Another important trip was made with Captain Newton H. Chittenden to the Queen Charlotte Islands in 1884. He and Hannah returned to the Queen Charlottes in 1888. Maynard sailed to the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea to photograph the seal rookeries in 1892. Richard also made trips to Alaska for photographic purposes in 1879, 1882, and 1887.
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: BVIPA (glass negatives and prints).
IDENTIFYING MARKS: "Photographed by R. Maynard, Victoria, B.C." on verso of print mount. "R. Maynard, Photographic Artist, and Dealer in All Kinds of Photographic Materials, Douglas Street, Victoria, B.C." on verso of print mount. "R. Maynard, Photographic Artist, and Dealer in All Kinds of Photographic Materials, Cor. Douglas and Johnson Sts., Victoria, B.C." on verso of print mount. "R. Maynard, Photographic Artist and Dealer in All Kinds of Photographic Materials, 41 Pandora Street [sic], Victoria, B.C." on verso of print mount. Negatives may be captioned and marked "Photographed by R. Maynard." Bottom front of print mount may be marked "R. Maynard Artist" or "R. Maynard Photographer."
REFERENCES: BVIPA GR-1304, file 3007 (probate); BVIPA MS-1077 (Newcombe Collection); directories (first listing for Richard and Hannah in MAL68); newspapers; Voters Lists; government (federal and provincial) records; photographs all at BVIPA; Kerr (1890); Gosnell (1906); Howay & Scholefield (1914):v. 4; 903-4; Wilks (1980); Mattison (1985); Mattison (1986a); Mattison (1987a); Mattison and Savard (1992); Mattison (1997b).

Maynard, Mrs. Richard see Maynard, Hannah Hatherly.

Mayo, Charles A. see Mayo & Weed.

NAME: Mayo & Weed
WHERE ACTIVE: Chicago, IL ; BC ; Alaska.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 309 Sixty Third St., Chicago/1891.
WORK INTERVAL: July 1891 (BC-Alaska).
STATUS: Studio.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Based in Chicago, this was a partnership of Charles A. Mayo and J.E. Weed. The firm were "special artists" for Grafton's Tours, also a Chicago company, and "this season accompanied one through Alaska." J.E. Weed was the photographer who travelled to Alaska, with part of the outbound or return trip taking him through the scenic route of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Mayo & Weed published a catalogue and album of this trip. The catalogue described the views of this trip as either 5x8 inch and 8x10 inch. The firm also carried views of "Old Mexico" which were taken in the winter months on another Grafton's Tours. The Mexico images are not described in the catalogue.
The album reproduced on the CIHM microfiche contains 70 8x10 and 56 5x8 views for $30.00. The 8x10 views are first, following by the 5x8 views. A handwritten caption (or typeface simulating handwriting) appears below the image. Each photographs contains a white number imprinted in the lower left corner. There is no other identifying information on the photographs.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS: number in lower left corner of photograph.
REFERENCES: Mayo & Weed (1891); E-mail, "Report on the Mayo & Weed 'Catalogue of Views'", Mattison to PHOTOHST@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU, 1999.02.25.

NAME: Meara, J.
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WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
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WORK INTERVAL: 1900.
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REFERENCES: World, 1900 05 04/8.

NAME: Medlock, E. S. or E. (Miss).
VARIANT: Wadds, Mrs. David.
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WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 45 Cordova St./1897-1898.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: 322 Dunsmuir St./1897-1898.
WORK INTERVAL: 1897-1898.
STATUS: Retoucher.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: She worked for the Wadds Bros. and married David Wadds on March 26, 1898 in Rossland.
REFERENCES: HEN97; WIL97; News-Advertiser, 1898 03 31/10.

Melrose's Gallery see Milross, William Thomas.

Merrfield, George see Merrifield, George.

NAME: Merrifield, George.
VARIANT: Merryfield, George ; Merrfield, George.
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WHERE ACTIVE: Nanaimo.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Commercial St./1893 ; 64 Commercial St./1894-1895. HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: 38 Milton St./1893 ; 30 Milton St./1894-1895.
WORK INTERVAL: 1893-1895.
STATUS: Commercial (assistant).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He worked for J. Sampson's Diamond City Photo Gallery. By 1897 he had turned to mining for black diamonds (coal).
REFERENCES: WIL93; WIL94; WIL95; HEN97; WIL97.

NAME: Merrill, Joseph.
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WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 56 Fort St./1893-1895.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: 56 Fort St./1894-1895.
WORK INTERVAL: 1893-1895.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He worked for J. Savannah and probably lived in or over the studio.
REFERENCES: WIL93; WIL94; WIL95.

NAME: Merrill, Mable (Miss).
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WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 56 Fort St./1897.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: Third St./1897.
WORK INTERVAL: 1897.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: She worked for G. Preston.
REFERENCES: WIL97.

Merryfield, George see Merrifield, George.

NAME: Metcalf, Charles H.
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WHERE ACTIVE: Bennett, BC.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1898.
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COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: AHL; YWA (copy prints).
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NAME: Miles, ________.
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WHERE ACTIVE: Nome, AK.
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NAME: Millar, George Edward.
VARIANT: Milliar, C. ; Miller, G. E.
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WHERE ACTIVE: Rossland ; Greenwood.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 26 ½ E. Columbia Ave. (Rossland)/1897-1899 ; Copper St. (Greenwood)/1899-1900.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1897-1900.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A partner in Carpenter & Millar, he moved to Greenwood in 1899 and established his own business.
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REFERENCES: HEN97; WIL97; HEN98; HEN99; WIL99; HEN00.

NAME: Miller, ---.
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WHERE ACTIVE: San Francisco, Calif. ; Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Government St., W. side near View/1874 11-?.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1874 11-?.
STATUS: Retoucher.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Described as "an experienced retoucher from the first San Francisco galleries," he worked for S.A. Spencer in the Theatre Photographic Gallery. He replaced R.A. Desmond who had gone to work for Noah Shakespeare.
REFERENCES: Colonist, 1874 11 07/3.

NAME: Miller, Rev.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Nanaimo.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1861.
STATUS: Amateur.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Rev. Ebenezer Robson (1836-1911) recorded in his diary on July _, 1861 that he helped this visiting Methodist [?] minister take photographs of the town.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Bill Burrill, who read it in the diary at BVIPA (Old MS R/D/R57), 1986 06 06.

Miller, G.E. see Millar, George Edward.

NAME: Miller, G.W.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Nelson.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR:
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: ca. 1898.
STATUS: Commercial?.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY:
COLLECTIONS: BVIPA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: Print surface marked "G.W. Miller Photo.".
REFERENCES: BVIPA photos HP032627 and HP032632.

NAME: Miller, J.A.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria.
WORK INTERVAL: 1861 04.
STATUS: Commercial (visit).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He was the president of "The World's Panorama Company".
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Colonist, 1861 04 01/3; 1861 04 04/1; Mattison (1984 01-03):47-8.

NAME: Miller, N.B.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Alert Bay.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: ca. 1888-1889.
STATUS: Amateur?
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A photograph in Scherer was credited to this photographer.
COLLECTIONS: SI.
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Scherer (1973).

NAME: Miller, T.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Nanaimo.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR:
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1882.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He advertised a copying services for photographs and tintypes.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Nanaimo Free Press, 1882 04 15/1.

NAME: Miller, William G.A.
LIFE DATES: 1867 __ __-19__ __ __.
BIRTHPLACE: Ontario.
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE/WHEN ACTIVE: Dawson/1898-ca. 1905.
WORK INTERVAL:
STATUS: Amateur?.
SUMMARY: Born in Ontario, his family settled in California. After he married Lenora Huntley in Oakland, he worked in San Francisco as a court reporter, then as a manager of the Sacramento Hotel. Miller traveled to Dawson in 1898 with his brother Henry and his brother-in-law Oni Lomax. In 1900 he went back to California for his wife.
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: Holt-Atherton Dept. of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Libraries, MSS 80 (ca. 1000 photographs, 1867-ca. 1950; some are of the Miller family or were collected by them).
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Morrison (1995); University of the Pacific Libraries online catalogue (http://pacificat.lib.uop.edu).

Milliar, C. see Millar, George Edward.

Millross, W.T. see Milross, William Thomas.

NAME: Mills, Thomas.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: BC.
BUSINESS ADDRESS-YEAR: Bangor, North Wales.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR: same as business address.
WORK INTERVAL: 1890-1891 ; 1893.
STATUS: Commercial (visit).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Mills toured Canada extensively in 1890-91 and 1893. On his first trip he concentrated on scenery in Western Canada and on his second trip on the landscapes and industries of the eastern half of the country. He was attached in both instances to a British farmers delegation. On the first trip he gathered over 1,000 negatives. On his second trip in 1893 he was assisted by a man named Morde. A catalogue of these views and those from the subsequent tour, as well as correspondence between Mills and the Dominion Immigration Branch, can be found in Immigration Branch records (OOA RG 76).
COLLECTIONS: BVIPA (album; Visual Records accession no. 198007-005)
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: OOA RG 76, v. 42, file 1049 (BVIPA microfilm B00749); World, 1890 11 19/4; News-Advertiser, 1890 11 22/8; 1891 01 01/12 (supplement); 1892 11 26/8; 1893 08 30/8; 1893 09 17/1; 1893 10 01/8.

NAME: Milne, A.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver ; New Zealand [?].
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Cordova St. (Miller Block, room 15)/1893?.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1893?.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A photograph in the City of Vancouver Archives has his address on the verso; the photo shows a float on Hastings St. E. with a sign in Japanese and English. The English sign says "Sons of the British Empire God Save the Queen." A photo in Looking Back, a photo history of New Zealand by Keith Sinclair, is captioned "A. Milne" and dated 1903.
COLLECTIONS: BVAA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: "A. Milne, Room 15 Miller Blk Cordova St., Vancouver, B.C." on verso of print.
REFERENCES: BVAA photo no. STREETS P. 316; Sinclair (1978):154.

NAME: Milross, William Thomas.
VARIANT: Millross, W.T.; Melrose's Gallery.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Cordova St., next door to McKendry's Boot Store/1886 05 24-06 13.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1886 05 24-06 13.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A partner in Milross & Wren, he became a painter. He left for Ontario in 1891 and was described upon his departure as "one of the first to take up residence in Vancouver."
REFERENCES: Vancouver Weekly Herald & North Pacific News, 1886 05 21/2 and 3; 1886 06 18/2; Vancouver News, 1886 06 05/2 (ad: "Melrose's [sic] Gallery); 1886 06 10/2 (ad: "Milross's Gallery"); Columbian, 1886 06 19/3; World, 1891 01 26/1; WIL88; HEN89; Vancouver Voters List, 1886 (n.l.); Voters List, 1890.

NAME: Milross & Wren.
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Cordova St., next door to McKendry's Boot Store/1886 05 24-6 13.
WORK INTERVAL: 1886 05 24-06 13.
STATUS: Studio.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: The partnership of W.T. Milross and J. Wren. The studio, the first in Vancouver, inching out that of J.A. Brock & Co. by a week or less, was destroyed in the disastrous fire of June 13. Losses were $500 and the company, unlike Brock & Co., did not remain in business. No photographs by Milross & Wren are known to have survived.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: same as for W.T. Milross.

NAME: Minto, Mary Caroline, Lady.
VARIANT: Grey, Mary Caroline.
LIFE DATES: 1858 or 1859 __ __-1940 __ __.
BIRTHPLACE: UK.
PLACE OF DEATH: UK.
WHERE ACTIVE: BC.
WORK INTERVAL: 1900.
STATUS: Amateur.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: The daughter of General Charles Grey and sister of the 4th Earl of Grey, she married the 4th Earl of Minto (1845-1914) in 1883. While he was Governor-General of Canada (1898-1904), they took the train to the Klondike so he could personally examine the situation there. Harry Graham, aide-de-camp to the Governor-General, reported in his journal Across Canada to the Klondyke, that Her Excellency carried a Kodak camera. Several of her photographs illustrate the published version of Graham's journal.
COLLECTIONS: NLS.
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Debrett's (1897 & 1967); Graham (1984).

NAME: Mizony, I.T.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
NAME: Mizony, Paul T.
LIFE DATES: 1881? __ __-19__ __ __.
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Bennett, BC; Yukon (likely Bonanza Creek area).
WORK INTERVAL: 1899-1901.
STATUS: Amateur.
SUMMARY: They lived at Bennett in 1899 and the father mined in the Yukon.
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: YWA (MM Collection).
IDENTIFYING MARKS: Print surface may be captioned in largish block printing.
REFERENCES: Paul T. birthdate: YWA photo no. 3580; YWA photo no. 3853 (GRAND FORKS).

Mizony, Paul T. see Mizony, I.T.

Montagu, Alice Maud Olivia see Stanley, Alice, Lady.

NAME: Moore, ---.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Bella Bella.
WORK INTERVAL: 1885.
STATUS: Commercial?.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Mentioned in the diary of Miss Agnes Knight:

A few minutes later Mr. Moore, who is a photographer, took the photograph of the [school]house, we were collected on the verandah. We then went in a canoe to the steamer [Glad Tidings] & were photographed again as we stood on the deck [entry for August 7, 1885].

REFERENCES: BVIPA, Knight, Agnes, diary (microfilm reel 204A).

NAME: Moore, Thomas Henry.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE: UK?.
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: England ; Wales ; Britanny ; U.S. ; Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 360 Tenth E. Ave./1895 08-1896 ; 424 Tenth Ave. E./1896-1897.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: same as business address.
WORK INTERVAL: 1895 08-1897.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He worked simultaneously in photography and real estate and also maintained an office in the YMCA building, Hastings St. He ran the Moore Printing Co. after leaving photography.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: HOD96; HEN97; WIL97; World, 1895 08 06/8; 1895 08 22/8; 1895 09 25/4; 1895 10 16/5; 1896 02 27/2.

NAME: Morde, ---.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: BC.
BUSINESS ADDRESS-YEAR: Bangor, North Wales.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR: same as business address.
WORK INTERVAL: 1893.
STATUS: Commercial (assistant).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: This man worked for Thomas Mills on his second tour of the Canadian North-West and British Columbia; they also operated as partners (Mills & Morde) in Bangor.
REFERENCES: News-Advertiser, 1893 10 01/8.

Morgan, A.D. see Worgan, Alfred Dashwood.

NAME: Morris, Curtis Dexter.
LIFE DATES: 1868? __ __-1950 10 before 26.
BIRTHPLACE: Nova Scotia.
PLACE OF DEATH: Vancouver.
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 59 Cordova St./1893.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: 708 Cambie St./1892 ; 59 Cordova St./1893.
WORK INTERVAL: 1893.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Reported to have arrived in B.C. in 1889, he worked as a bookkeeper for the Hastings Mill. The 1892 listing showed him as a clerk in 1892 but no business address was given. He was a listed as a photographer with T.B. Straiton in 1893. He moved to the Selkirk Mountains and ran general stores at Rogers Pass and other locations, then moved to Quesnel. He retired in 1945.
REFERENCES: WIL92; WIL93; Sun, 1950 10 26 (obit.; no date of death given).

NAME: Mortimer, George.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Rossland.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Lincoln St., near Second Ave./1897-1898.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1897-1898.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY:
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: HEN97; HEN98.

NAME: Mountain, Albert.
VARIANT: Mountain, J.W.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: New Westminster.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Columbia St., near Church/1890 ; 437 Columbia St./1891.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: Farmers' Home/1891.
WORK INTERVAL: 1889?-1891.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A partner in Mountain & Heckley and Uren & Mountain, he was listed in error in 1891 as J.W. Mountain.
COLLECTIONS: see Mountain & Heckley and Uren & Mountain.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: see Mountain & Heckley and Uren & Mountain.
REFERENCES: HEN90; HEN91; Voters List, 1890.

Mountain, J.W. see Mountain, Albert.

NAME: Mountain & Heckley.
WHERE ACTIVE: New Westminster.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 437 Columbia St./1891.
WORK INTERVAL: 1891.
STATUS: Studio.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: The partnership of Albert Mountain and J.W. Heckley.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: HEN91.

Muggeridge, James Edward see Muybridge, Eadweard James.

NAME: Muirhead, Charles H.
LIFE DATES: 1872 08 28-1957 04 26.
BIRTHPLACE: near Helenburgh, Scotland.
PLACE OF DEATH: Portland, OR.
WHERE ACTIVE: Sidney ; Bennett ; Atlin ; Whitehorse, Yukon.
BUSINESS ADDRESS-YEAR: see under Muirhead Bros.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1896-1906.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He arrived in the USA in 1893 with his brother L.P. Muirhead. A partner in the Muirhead Bros, he won an amateur photo contest in January 1900. His address was given as Atlin, BC. After the partnership in Atlin dissolved, C.H. settled in Wenatchee, Washington.
COLLECTIONS: see Muirhead Bros.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: see Muirhead Bros.
REFERENCES: HOD96; Letter, Yukon Archives to Mattison, 1982 03 26; Leslie's Weekly, 1900 01 08/16; Wenatchee Daily World (WA), 1957 04 28/2 (C.H.M. obituary); 1936 C.H.M. correspondence via Michael Cirelli, Seattle, WA; US Census data via Michael Cirelli, Seattle, WA, 1995 12 11.

NAME: Muirhead, Lewis Potter, Jr.
LIFE DATES: 1876 __ __-19__ __ __.
BIRTHPLACE: Scotland.
PLACE OF DEATH: probably England.
WHERE ACTIVE: Sidney ; Bennett ; Atlin ; Whitehorse, Yukon ; Seattle, WA.
BUSINESS ADDRESS-YEAR: see under Muirhead Bros.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: Spruce Junction (Bennett or Atlin)/1900.
WORK INTERVAL: 1896-1920.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He arrived in the USA in 1893 with his brother C.H. Muirhead. In 1896 they formed a partnership in Sidney, BC, as Muirhead Bros.
According to Jones (1976), L.P. worked as a commercial marine photographer between around 1908 and 1920. At the time of the 14th US Census (1920), L.P. was living in Seattle with his wife Margaret and 9-year old daughter Marion born in Washington State. L.P. moved back to England from Seattle in 1926 and was living in Biddenham, Bedford, in 1936. C.H. Muirhead's 1957 obituary reported L.P. Muirhead as still living in England.
COLLECTIONS: see Muirhead Bros.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: see Muirhead Bros.
REFERENCES: HOD96 (classified only); Voters List, 1900; Jones (1976); Letter, Yukon Archives to Mattison, 1982 03 26.

NAME: Muirhead Bros.
WHERE ACTIVE: Sidney ; Bennett ; Atlin ; Whitehorse, Yukon.
BUSINESS ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1896-1906.
STATUS: Studio.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: The partnership of C.H. and L.P. Muirhead who moved to northern BC and operated after the turn of the century in Atlin and Whitehorse. Examples of their photography can be found in The Mining Record (1900).
COLLECTIONS: AEUA; AHL; BATM; BVIPA (Visual Records accession no. 198205-002, album); OTUAR.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: print surface usually captioned, sometimes dated and marked "Muirhead Bros." or "Muirhead".
REFERENCES: HOD96; The Mining Record (1900 05):161-70; Jones (1976); Letter, Yukon Archives to Mattison, 1982 03 26.

NAME: Murchie, Archibald.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: New Westminster.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: 1411 Sixth Ave./1893 ; Murchie Rd./1895.
WORK INTERVAL: 1890-1895.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY:
COLLECTIONS: BVAA; BVIPA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: "A. Murchie Photographer" stamped on verso of print (BVAA BOATS P. 121). "Archibald Murchie, Photographer" stamped on verso of print mount (BVIPA photo no. HP073022).
REFERENCES: WIL93; WIL95; WIL97; Voters List, 1890.

NAME: Muybridge, Eadweard James.
VARIANT: Muggeridge, James Edward.
LIFE DATES: 1830 04 09-1904 05 08.
BIRTHPLACE: Kingston-on-Thames, England, UK
PLACE OF DEATH: Kingston-on-Thames, England, UK.
WHERE ACTIVE: Nanaimo ; Vancouver Island ; Alaska.
BUSINESS ADDRESS-YEAR: 415 Montgomery St. (San Francisco, CA)/1868.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR: San Francisco.
WORK INTERVAL: 1868 07-08.
STATUS: Institutional (visit).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Muybridge was an accomplished landscape photographer by the time he was appointed to accompany General William Halleck to take views of military ports and harbours of Alaska. Buckland reproduces a view captioned by the author "probably Warm Spring Indian Camp, c 1873" which is in fact a Tlingit Indian group of Fort Tongass, Alaska (see Pierce). Scharf contains a photograph captioned "Group of Indians, Nanaimo District of Vancouver Island." Views from this trip were sold as 8 x 10 in. prints and stereograph cards.
COLLECTIONS: BVIPA; KMAG.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: print surface may be marked "Helios." Stereo mount bears imprint on left side "Views of the Pacific Coast, Helios, Cosmopolitan Gallery of Photographic Art, 415 Montgomery St. San Francisco"; 1868 copyright notice on right side; caption on bottom left of mount; e.g. "Alaska Ter.--Sitka."
REFERENCES: National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (1926):v. 19; 152; Buckland (1974):39 & 54; Naef (1975):173; Scharf (1976):151; Darrah (1977):100; Pierce (1977):202-10.