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Hannah Maynard’s photographic career was marked by experimentation with the medium, inventive approaches to self-promotion, and an ease in combining her professional life with home and family. Maynard produced photographs that captured the people and growth of Victoria from frontier town to settled capital. She did this through portraits of all of those who passed through or made it their home, from toddlers to miners and sailors to distinguished colonial personages. These selections reflect the varied, yet interconnected aspects of the photographs Maynard produced over the course of a career that spanned five decades and two centuries.