Series 3: May Pollard further papers and pictorial material, approximately 1850-approximately 1970

series

approximately 1850-1970

Textual Records, Clippings, Notated Music, Ephemera, Objects, Graphic Materials, Drawings, Photographs

9669966

0.62 metres of textual material (2 boxes, 1 outsize box) includes photographs
2 photographic prints - 2 x 24 x 19 cm, in frame 40 x 36 cm - oil on albumen

May Pollard was born in 1868 at Launceston, Tasmania. She was the daughter of James Joseph Pollard founder of 'Pollard's Liliputian Opera Company', a children's opera company mainly made up of Pollard's own large family. May Pollard toured New Zealand and India with Pollard's Junior Opera Company and at the age of fifteen joined J. C. Williamson. She later played in London. May Pollard died in 1970.

Reference
Library correspondence file

File 1: May Pollard further papers, approximately 1868-approximately 1970
File 2: Portrait of William Weippert
File 3: Portrait of Corunna Gooch Weippert

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