Person Record
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Name |
Mace, Charles |
Othernames |
Charlie, Charles Eric, Chas |
Born |
Nov. 8, 1889 |
Birthplace |
North Hampton, England |
Places of residence |
Denver and Estes Park |
Titles & honors |
One of the longest standing members of Denver Press Club. Mace served on the U.S. Army Signal Corps under General Pershing when the United States got involved in World War I. Mace is said to have taken over 1,500 photographs between 1917 and 1918 as a combat photographer. When reporting to his Lieutenant on the front line during World War I, Mace stated: "I was determined to do something in this war and i was prepared, if necessary, to go AWOL (absent without official leave) in order to get up here." As a combat photographer, Mace is said to have taken over 1,500 photographs throughout the war. In 1908, he captured a photograph of President Theodore Roosevelt during the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo in Wyoming. The photograph was acclaimed "one of the finest ever taken" by newspapers at the time. Mace worked for all the newspapers of Denver at one time or another including the Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News, Denver Republican, and Denver Express. |
Father |
William Mace |
Nationality |
Naturalized U. S. Citizen |
Education |
Mace listed his professional occupation as photographer by the time he was nineteen years old. He worked for all the newspapers of Denver at one time or another including the Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News, Denver Republican, and Denver Express. In 1911, Mace was awarded first prize in an Eastman Kodak national photograph contest. He continued to produce photographs for advertisers utilizing his wife Gloria, his daughter Jeanne, or other Estes Park locals, to serve as his models. |
Notes |
The Mace family moved to Denver from England within months of Charles' 1889 birth. By the age of 18, Charles mastered the skillful art of photography, joined the Denver Press Club and started working as a professional photographer for Denver newspapers. He took a number of photographs at the turn of the century capturing the prominent changes in Denver and many of the famous personalities passing through during an era now referred to as the "closing days of the Old West." Mace decided to serve the United States during World War I and headed a photography unit in the U.S. Signal Corps as a combat photographer. Later, many images were included in books detailing the photographic history of the First World War. Upon returning to the United States, Mace and his brother Gordon embarked on opening and operating the Baldpate Inn, with its first season in 1918. Mace also continued his professional career as a photographer and created many images for advertisers such as Eastman Kodak who ran advertisements in the New York Times. After aiding in the documentary division of the Army program to relocate Japanese-Americans during World War II, Mace retired from the profession of photography. Mace never stopped taking photographs though, and there are a number of images capturing his family enjoying Estes Park, until he passed in 1973 at the age of 83. In 1943, Mace was hired as a darkroom specialist for the War Relocation Authority's Photographic Section (WRAPS). The following year, he shifted to full-time photographic assignments and even became chief photographer and head of WRAPS for a brief period. |
Occupation |
Proprietor, Photographer, Inventor (darkroom patents), amatuer playwrite |
Relationships |
Brother of Stuart Mace (prominent Denver Photographer) and Gordon Mace - with whom he helped build and operate the Baldpate Inn for some time. |
Spouse |
Gloria De Neen of Denver (married July 7, 1920) |
Children |
Jeanne (Jeannie) Mace Roessler (born in 1921) |
Related Records
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1984.012.030 - Print, Photographic
Picture of 2 butterflies from Dr. Roy Wiest's collection. At the top: "Erebia Magdalena" and "Strecker's Alpine." Under this: "Dr. Roy Wiest. Estes Park, Colorado, Reg. No. 1499." Thumbtacked under the mounted butterflies is a typed note - "Address-"Taken above Trail Ridge, Rocky Mountain National Park on July 4, 1937. Elevation 12,000 feet." Photographed by Charlie Mace for LIFE Magazine.
Record Type: Photo
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1984.012.031 - Print, Photographic
Local couple on knees in snow at Iceberg Lake lifting the butterfly net after capture of the rare "snow butterfly" (Erebia Magdalena, Strecker's Alpine) on July 4, 1937. The specimen went to Dr. Roy Wiest's collection. The girl on the left is Jeanne Mace. Photographed by Charlie Mace for LIFE Magazine.
Record Type: Photo
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1984.012.034 - Print, Photographic
Party of two local girls and a local young man with butterfly nets, hunting the rare "snow butterfly" near Iceberg Lake for the collection of Dr. Roy Wiest, early Estes Park physician. Photographed by Charlie Mace for LIFE Magazine.
Record Type: Photo
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1984.012.036 - Print, Photographic
Jeanne Mace Roessler sitting in a bristle cone tree with the "snow butterfly" in a jar. The butterfly was collected by a group of local young people for Dr. Roy Wiest, an early Estes Park physician. Photographed by Charlie Mace for LIFE Magazine.
Record Type: Photo
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1984.012.037 - Print, Photographic
Local young man in snowshoes with butterfly net, hunting the rare "snow butterfly" near Iceberg Lake on Trail Ridge, for the collection of Dr. Roy Wiest, an early Estes Park physician. Photographed by Charlie Mace for LIFE Magazine.
Record Type: Photo
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1999.011.004 - Book
"Young Desire," by Clem Yore, autographed on frontspiece by Charles Mace by Clem Yore dated July 11, 1931. Soiled beige cover with drawing of young girl with long hair in scantily clothed in print dress.
Record Type: Object
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2013.016.003 - Book
Covers the condition on the Western Front in the Fall of 1917, events leading to U.S. participation in the War, the activities of the First Army Corps A. E. F., third Army, including Chateau-Thierry and Belleau Wood, the Second Marine campaign, the St. Mihiel operation, and the Meuse-Argonne Battle.
Record Type: Object
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