File 1: May Pollard further papers, approximately 1868-approximately 1970

MLMSS 11828/Boxes 18-19
MLMSS 11828/Box 25X

file

approximately 1868-1970

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

9669967

0.62 metres of textual material (2 boxes, 1 outsize box) includes photographs

Tyrone Power Senior was born Frederick Tyrone Edmond Power in London in 1869 and died in 1931.

Reference
"Tyrone Power Senior". IMDB, viewed 22 November 2023, https://www.imdb.com

Collection of papers, photographs, keepsakes and published works related to and previously owned by signer, May Pollard.

BOX 18
Folder 1A
Preliminary contents list and notes provided by donors. Arrangement and content may differ.
Folder 1
May Pollard's 100th birthday celebrations, May 1968
Folder 2
Wartime ephemera including photograph of Red Cross agent treating woman during the South African War, 1899-1902, World War I raffle tickets and donation receipts, letter of thanks from Trooper R. Carlini, 1915
Folder 3
Unframed clippings and photographs of James Joseph Pollard, May Pollard, Cora Brown-Potter and Kyrle Bellew
Folder 4
Emily Grundy correspondence and photographs including letters and signed theatre photographs signed in gratitude
Folder 5
Miscellaneous magazine cuttings
Folder 6
Theatre programs, including Little Nell (1880), Garrick Theatre (1890), Empire Theatre (1898) and Gaiety Theatre, London (1899, 1908),
Folder 7
May Pollard wills and financial papers
Folder 8
Correspondence including letters from admirers
Folder 9
Photographs including Pollard family portraits, May Pollard in costume and investment property
Australian Comfort Funds socks knitting pattern
Folder 10
Photographs including J. C. Williamson, Kyrle Bellew, unidentified actors in costume, unidentified possible members of the Pollard family, William Gavin Lyster, Major-General Sir Reginald Talbot, Fred Pollard and Hester May Edwards
Folder 11
May Pollard keepsakes including birthday and Christmas cards, Fry's Chocolate miniature handbag, red ribbon 'Elsie Maynard', hand-embroidered book of luggage tags, dance programme, 1877, The Oruba Observer ship's magazine, 2 March-14 April 1898

BOX 19
My Life's Story / by Nellie Stewart (1923). Inscribed copy.
Pythagoras and His Mind-Child / Cora Brown-Potter (Second edition). Inscribed copy with loose note.
The Truth About My Friends. An autograph book (partially used).
Thumb O Graphs. A fingerprint autograph book, unused.
Friendships Memorial and Daily Text Book. May Pollard from her sister Alice, May 5, 1882.
Bell's Standard Elocutionist (1882). Inscribed to the Lilliputians.
May Pollard Day Book and Ledger, 1914-1927

BOX 25X
May Pollard photographs and papers
Song 'Buy My Roses' [sheet music]: May Pollard , Sydney, Sept. 1909 / words by E. Teschemacher, music by David D. Slater (c. 1907)
Photograph of mounted infantry officer, R. J. Smyly, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, Pretoria, 19 September 1902
Photograph of costumed lady, ca. 1902 / J. E. Middlebrook Photo, Kimberley, South Africa
Wedding photograph of unidentified couple (man in WWII uniform) / Austin Murcott, Melbourne
Wedding photograph, unidentified bride, ca. 1913 / Ruskin Studio, R.&N. Lucas, Collins Street, Melbourne
Photograph of May Pollard with three other ladies, May 18th 1905, Medlow Bath
Photograph of unidentified child holding a ball, ca. 1930s / Sydney Riley Studio, Sydney
Colourised photographic portrait of young woman, 1946 / Monte Luke Studio, Sydney
Magazine clipping of photograph of Dame Nellie Melba
Sweet Nell of Old Drury, Thursday April 22nd 1926: souvenir programme
Copy of the Australian Women's Weekly, May 20 1950 featuring May Pollard's dahlias on the cover
Cover print of Australian Women's Weekly, May 20 1950
Heavily over-painted photograph in pen, ink and pencil of Mary Eleanor Pollard (nee Weippert), mother of May Pollard, ca. 1870

FOLDER 26X
Photograph of May Pollard, ca. 1905-1910

Photograph of Tyrone Power Senior as Sydney Carton and Rose Musgrave as Mimi in “The Only Way”, June 1900, by Hammer & Co., Adelaide

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