May Pollard collection of photographs of Australian and overseas actors and theatre personalities -...
May Pollard collection of photographs of Australian and overseas actors and theatre personalities -...
May Pollard collection of photographs of Australian and overseas actors and theatre personalities - chiefly
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
approximately between 1870-1930
Call Numbers
PXE 1358/Boxes 1-6
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures, Photographs, Drawings and Clippings
Physical Description
Contents
298 photographs - on mount 38.0 x 30.5 cm or smaller - mainly albumen
12 drawings - 18.0 x 25.5 cm or smaller - watercolour
clippings - 10 x 25 cm or smaller - ink
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Issue Copy
Partly Digitised : 13 portraits of May Pollard
Finding aids
Available online - http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2007/D00007/a580.pdf
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
The following portraits have been identified (this is a partial listing only):
BOX 1/nos.1-39
1. Mrs Brown Potter
2-39. May Pollard
BOX 2/nos.40-88
40-44. May Pollard
45. Violet Varley’s funeral, June 1895
11,42. May Pollard & niece / by Jenny Ford, Hobart, photographer & close friend of May Pollard
46. Mary Eleanor...
Alternative Titles
Full title
May Pollard collection of photographs of Australian and overseas actors and theatre personalities - chiefly
Variant title
Nos. 45, 104, 105, 117, 126, 208-213, 242, 257-268 titles designated by cataloguer.
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Author / Artists
Notes
General note
Digital order no:Album ID : 824050...
Signature / Inscriptions
Some photographic portraits are annotated and signed in pen
Watercolour drawings are untitled
Description source
Identifications taken from information provided by relative of May Pollard and from the items themselves, 1996.
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Hugh Braga, June 1970
Pic.Acc.2282
Exhibited in
Administrative / Biographical history
May Pollard was the daughter of James Joseph Pollard who formed 'Pollard's Liliputian [i.e. Lilliputian] Opera Company' in Launceston, 1880. The company performed popular operettas, touring Australia and the colonies, with May as one of the leading singers. She later starred in many operettas produced by J. C. Williamson when she grew up -- Referen...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXE 1358/Boxes 1-6
Record Identifier
1Lj2Vay9
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1Lj2Vay9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
125167
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