Harry Pollard
Photographer, Visual Artist
1880 – 1968
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Who was Harry Pollard?
Harry Pollard was a Canadian photographer whose specialty was photographing First Nations people.
He was born in Tillsonburg, Ontario, Canada. In 1899, young Harry arrived in Calgary, and opened a photography studio there.
In 1924, Pollard was press photographer for Associated Screen News, a subsidiary of Canadian Pacific Railway. He was hired to take promotional pictures of ocean cruises, and his job took him around the world 14 times.
The Harry Pollard photograph collection is in the Provincial Archives of Alberta, having been acquired by the provincial government in 1964.
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- Born
- 1880
Tillsonburg - Profession
- Died
- 1968
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on July 23, 2013
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