Research Catalog
Pollard family papers
- Title
- Pollard family papers, 1844-1917.
- Author
- Pollard family.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding Aid
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 7 linear feet (17 boxes).
- Summary
- Collection consists of Pollard's business papers and correspondence and other papers of his family and related families in Lynchburg.
- Subjects
- Businessmen
- Photographs
- Diaries
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives
- United States > Commerce > China
- Lynchburg (Va.) > Social life and customs
- Europe > Description and travel
- Confederate States of America > History > Biography
- China > Commerce > United States
- Government vessels > United States
- Methodist Episcopal Church
- Saunders family
- Reeve family
- Pollard family
- Glass family
- Dudley family
- Genre/Form
- Diaries.
- Photographs.
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Biography (note)
- Richard Pollard (1829-1908) was an insurance agent in Lynchburg, Virginia, and a trader during the 1850s in the Chinese import/export business.
- Processing Action (note)
- Cataloged
- Call Number
- MssCol 2450
- OCLC
- NYPW94-A191
- Author
- Pollard family.
- Title
- Pollard family papers, 1844-1917.
- Restricted Access
- Restricted access; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Biography
- Richard Pollard (1829-1908) was an insurance agent in Lynchburg, Virginia, and a trader during the 1850s in the Chinese import/export business. He served in the Confederate Army during the U.S. Civil War and was active in the Court St. Methodist Episcopal Church in Lynchburg after the war. In 1908 his daughter, Bettie Pollard Glass, founded the Pollard and Glass insurance agency in Lynchburg with Anna L. Jones.
- Finding Aids
- Collection guide available in repository and on internet.
- Connect to:
- Occupation
- Businessmen.
- Added Author
- Glass, Bettie Pollard.Pollard, Edward A. (Edward Alfred), 1831-1872.Pollard, Elizabeth Saunders Dudley.Pollard, Richard, 1829-1908.Saunders, Charles.Saunders, Nannie.Court Street Methodist Episcopal Church (Lynchburg, Va.)Mutual Home Association of Lynchburg (Va.)
- Research Call Number
- MssCol 2450