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Albert H. Maynard photographs of the Provincial Museum’s natural history collections

Series consists of 104 photographs by Albert Hatherly Maynard documenting the natural history collection at the Provincial Museum (now the Royal BC Museum) in Victoria, British Columbia between 1886 and the 1920s. Images document 19th- and 20th-century bird and mammal specimen preparation and display, the museum's natural history gallery and exhibit design, diorama fabrication, a collection of British Columbia wildlife, collection housing, and exhibit areas of the first three locations of the Provincial Museum: the Provincial Secretary’s office (1886-1889), the former Law Court (1889-1898), and the East Wing (1898-1968) of the Legislative buildings.

By the 1890s, Maynard was working as a taxidermist for the Provincial Museum and was involved with the Natural History Society of British Columbia, an auxiliary and independent organization that aided the growth of the museum’s natural history collection in the 1890s to early 1900s.

Maynard, Albert Hatherly

Provincial Museum taxidermy shop

Provincial Museum taxidermy shop

Item consists of one stereo photograph of the Provincial Museum's taxidermy shop. John Fannin (1837-1904), the first curator of the museum, is seated at centre. Francis Kermode (1874-1946), curator and later director of the museum, is possibly seated in the back corner on the viewer's right. They are surrounded by various taxidermy specimens in progress.

Maynard, Albert Hatherly