• Title
  May Pollard collection of photographs of Australian and overseas actors and theatre personalities - chiefly
• Creator
  May Pollard, 1868-1970
• Call number
  PXE 1358/Boxes 1-6
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  approximately between 1870-1930
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs, Watercolours, Clippings
• Reference code
  125167
• Issue Copy
  Partly Digitised : 13 portraits of May Pollard
  
• Physical Description
  298 photographs - mainly albumen - on mount 38.0 x 30.5 cm or smaller
  12 drawings - watercolour - 18.0 x 25.5 cm or smaller
  clippings - ink - 10 x 25 cm or smaller
  
• 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 -- Reference: Companion to theatre in Australia / Phillip Parsons (ed.). Sydney : Currency Press, 1995, p.460. Location Number: REF1 792.0994/6 Mitchell Library
• Scope and Content
  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 Pollard (nee Weippert). 1st wife of James Joseph Pollard, founder of Pollard's Lilliputian Opera Company in Launceston, Tas., 1880. Mother of May Pollard
  47,54-55. Olive Pollard, b. 1870, talented violinist, sister of May. Both were performers with Pollard's Lilliputian Opera Company
  48. Henry "Harry" John Pollard, December 1884, brother of May Pollard
  49. Pollard family
  50. Emma Patey, May Pollard’s aunt
  51-52. James Joseph Pollard (May Pollard’s father). No.52 photographed by his brother Edwin Keilor Pollard in Wellington, 1881
  53, 56-57. Pollard family
  58. Mrs Nellie Chester (nee Pollard) & two children. Sister of May Pollard. Co-proprietor of Pollard's Lilliputian Opera Company with her brother Charles Albert Pollard, 1896-1914. She moved to the U.S.A and died 18 April 1944
  59-60. Charles Albert Pollard, brother of May and Co-Proprietor of Pollard's Lilliputian Opera Co. Originally owned by their father James Joseph Pollard in 1880, Charles and Tom owned the company 1884-1896. Charles and his sister Nellie took the company overseas to South Africa, England, Singapore, India, Hong Kong, U.S.A., Hawaii & Canada, performing a selection of popular light operas from 1896-1914
  61. Tom Pollard, Co-owner of Pollard's Lilliputian Opera Co. with Charles from 1884-1896. After 1896 he operated his own Pollard's Juvenile Opera Co. until 1910 (mostly in New Zealand). He was brother-in-law to May Pollard, marrying her sister "Teny" (Emily Albertina). He changed his name from O'Sullivan to Pollard.
  62. Pollard family
  63. Young Tom Pollard, Teny's youngest son and nephew of May Pollard
  64. Harry & Alice (sister of May Pollard)
  65-67. Pollard family
  68. Maud, niece of May Pollard
  69-71. Muriel Pollard, niece of May Pollard, talented pianist and daughter of Henry (Harry) J. Pollard, approximately 1912
  72-74. Pollard family
  75. Pollard family, approximately late 1880's; May Pollard on far right
  76-84. Pollard family
  85. Georgina Hodson
  86-88. Young child performers from Pollard's Lilliputian Opera Co., on tour in New Zealand 1880-1881
  
  
  BOX 3/nos. 89-157
  89-91. Edna May, friend of May Pollard
  93, 142-144. Essie Jenyns
  94-95. Nellie Farren, London Gaiety Burlesque Company, approximately 1888
  96-101. Mrs Brown Potter, approximately 1896
  103. Kyrle Bellew
  104. Mr Sass - Igor Sas
  105. Madam Marion Burton
  106-107. Mrs Robert Brough
  108-109. Violet Varley
  111. Nellie Butler, Gaiety Co. (Miss Blanche Massey in "The Gaiety Girl")
  112. Alice Lethbridge, Gaiety Co.
  113. Frank Thornton
  114. George Lauri
  115-116. Catherine Bartho
  117. Fanny Liddian
  117. Pattie Browne, 1898
  118-120. Miss Olga Nethersole
  121. Marie Halton
  124-125. Flora Graupner
  126. Alice Barnett, 1888
  128. Nance O'Neil, approximately 1905-1906
  130. Howard Vernon, 1885
  131. Arthur Garner & daughter
  132. Alice Leamer, Gaiety Co., 1892
  133-135. Fred Leslie, Gaiety Co.
  137-139. Billy Elton
  142-144, 93. Essie Jenyns
  145. Geo C. Miln
  146-147. Sarah Bernhardt
  
  BOX 4/nos. 158-213
  158. Courtice Pounds
  159. Huntley Wright
  160. Marie Tempest
  161. Rutland Barrington
  162. Louis Bradfield
  163, 204. Joseph Tapley
  164. Marion Hood, Gaiety Co.
  165.Sylvia Grey, Gaiety Co.
  166. Letty Lind, Gaiety Co.
  167-173. Phyllis Rankin
  182-183. Maud Hobson, Gaiety Co.
  184-203. Nellie Stewart
  207. Rose Musgrove, daughter of George Musgrove
  208-213. Signed portraits
  
  BOX 5/nos. 214-256
  214. Grace Palotta, Gaiety Co., 1895
  215-216. Mr Tom & Mrs Emily Grundy
  217. J. Bernard Hall
  223. George S. Titherage
  224. Jennie Lee
  225. William Elton
  227. John L. Toole
  236. Edward Giles Ford & Jane Ford (nee Young), timber merchant & ship owner of Hobart town. Close friends of the Pollard family of Launceston & Pollard's Lilliputian Opera Co. Parents of Jenny Ford photographer of Hobart
  241. Pauline Frederick, 1925
  242. Sylvia Welling
  253. Rudolf Buchner
  
  BOX 6/nos. 257-336
  257-268. Watercolour drawings of Blue Mountains, country and river scenes
  269-270. May Pollard in South Africa, approximately 1910-1914
  271-336. Photographs of South Africa, approximately 1900-1914, including newscuttings of the Boer War. Also scenes of the pyramids, Egypt
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Finding Aids
  Available online - acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2007/D00007/a580.pdf
• Description source
  
  Identifications taken from information provided by relative of May Pollard and from the items themselves, 1996.
• Variant title
  
  Nos. 45, 104, 105, 117, 126, 208-213, 242, 257-268 titles designated by cataloguer.
• General note
  
  See PXn 495 (available in Mitchell Library Reading Room) for an article on May Pollard published in Sydney Morning Herald, 27 April 1968
  
  Related manuscript material: MLMSS 2205 Mitchell Library (Miss May Pollard papers, 1888-1943)
  
  Related pictorial material: PXB 171 Mitchell Library (Photographs of May Pollard, approximately 1885-1900)
  Digital order no:Album ID : 824050
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Some photographic portraits are annotated and signed in pen
  Watercolour drawings are untitled
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Falk Studios (Firm)
  Talma & Co.
  
• Name
  Bartho, Catherine
  Bellew, Kyrle, 1857-1911
  Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923
  Brough, Florence, 1860-1932
  Brown Potter, Cora
  Browne, Pattie
  Burton, Marion
  Farren, Nellie
  Gaiety Theatre (London)
  Garner, Arthur, b.1851
  Graupner, Flora
  Grey, Sylvia
  Hood, Marion
  Jeffries, Maud, 1869-1946
  Jennings, Elizabeth Esther Ellen, 1864-1920
  Lauri, George, ca. 1859-d. 1909
  Leamar, Alice
  Leslie, Fred
  Lind, Letty
  May, Edna
  Musgrove, Rose
  Nethersole, Olga, 1870-1951
  O'Neil, Nance, 1874-1965
  Palotta, Grace, b. 1870?
  Patey, Emma
  Pollard family
  Pollard, James Joseph
  Pounds, Courtice
  Rankin, Phyllis
  Rignold, George, 1839-1912
  Varley, Violet
  Vernon, Howard, 1848-1921
  
• Subject
  Actors and actresses--Australia.
  portraits
  Pollard, May, 1868-1970.
  Theatrical companies--Australia--Photographs.
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  children
  Stewart, Nellie, 1858-1931
  Tempest, Marie, 1866-1942
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Legends : the art of Walter Barnett - Applies to: nos. 103; 256(b)

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