| Harry Pollard | |
|---|---|
| Born | Harry Pollard 1880 Tillsonburg, Ontario, Canada. |
| Died | 1968 |
| Occupation | photographer businessman |
Harry Pollard (1880–1968) was a Canadian photographer whose specialty was photographing First Nations (Native American) people.[1]
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.[2]
The Harry Pollard photograph collection is in the Provincial Archives of Alberta,[3] having been acquired by the provincial government in 1964.