John Garland Pollard Papers, 1683-1968
- Title
- John Garland Pollard Papers, 1683-1968
- ID
- Mss. 70 P76
- Extent
- 30.0 Cubic Feet
- More Extent Information
- 15,000 Items
- Scope and Contents
Letters, clippings, manuscript volumes, business papers, pamphlets, genealogical material, family papers, reports, memos, campaign literature, photographs of John G. Pollard (1871-1937), lawyer, educator, statesman, humanitarian, and governor of Virginia, 1930-1934. Prominent correspondents include Henry Watkins Anderson, Lady Astor, Frederic W. Boatwright, David K. E. Bruce, John Stewart Bryan, William Jennings Bryan, Harry F. Byrd, James Cannon, J. A. C. Chandler, Calvin Coolidge, Westmoreland Davis, Jessie Ball Dupont, Carter Glass, John D. Rockefeller, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Claude A. Swanson, Lyon G. Tyler, Alexander W. Weddell, and Woodrow Wilson.
Box 4 Folder 98 contains plot plans for Pollard Park and Chandler Court in Williamsburg, VA.
Addition shelved at end of collection is described on Finding Aid/Inventory (below).
Series 3 contains the correspondence and papers of John Garland Pollard related to his career at the College of William and Mary.
- Other URL
- http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/findingaids/70_P76_Pollard__JP.pdf
- Arrangement
- Series 3 was originally the John Garland <span class="highlight0 bold">Pollard</span> Papers, UA 6.025, and was combined intellectually in August 2011.
- Creators
- Pollard, John Garland (1871-1937)
- Subjects
- Baptists--Virginia--History.
- College of William and Mary
- College of William and Mary--Alumni and Alumnae.
- College of William and Mary--History--20th century.
- Colonial National Historical Park (Va.)
- Democratic Party (U.S.)
- Fundraising campaigns
- Marshall-Wythe School of Law
- Phi Beta Kappa. Virginia Alpha, College of William and Mary.
- Southern Baptist Convention--History--20th century.
- United States. Board of Veterans Appeals.
- United States. Federal Trade Commission.
- Virginia--Governors
- Virginia--Politics and Government.
- Williamsburg (Va.)--History--20th century.
- Young Men's Christian Associations.
- Genres
- Agendas (administrative records)
- Certificates
- Correspondence
- Financial records
- Fliers (printed matter)
- Minutes
- Photographs
- Receipts (financial records)
- Reports
- Resolutions (administrative records)
- Technical reports
- Languages
- English
Detailed Description
Administrative Information
- Acquired
- 08/01/1970.
- Restrictions
- Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.
- Rights
- Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.
- Acquisition Note
- Donated to W&M Special Collections Research Center in batches between 1970 and 1987 by Violet M. Pollard, John G. Pollard, Jr., Charles Pollard, Susan P. Boatwright, Elizabeth P. C. Johnson, Jessie G. P. Dodge, and Joseph P. Pollard.
- Related Materials
- Phonograph records from this collection have been moved to the Manuscripts Audiovisual Collection.
- Related Publications
- Maud Pollard Turman, <i>John Garland Pollard, 1871-1937: An Informal Biography</i> (s.l., s.n., [1960]); and John Stanley Hopewell, "An Outsider Looking In: John Garland Pollard and Machine Politics in Twentieth Century Virginia" (Ph.D. Thesis, University of Virginia).
- Preferred Citation
- John Garland Pollard Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
- Finding Aid Revisions:
- Updated by Anne Johnson in January 2010. UA 6.025, John Garland Pollard Papers, was combined intellectually into this collection by Benjamin Bromley in August 2011.
- Collection Material Type:
- Papers
- Other Note
- A PDF document of this inventory is available online.
