The Family files series contains five subseries with files of individual members of the family: James B. Pollock, Roda Selleck Pollock, their daughters Cathelia E. Pollock and Florence Pollock, Roda S. Pollock's mother Cathelia A. Selleck, and Roda Selleck Pollock's aunt Roda E. Selleck. Records include correspondence, diaries, notebooks, articles and essays, and collected materials.
8.5 linear feet
The Pollock Family Papers contain topical files and correspondence of several generations of the Pollock-Selleck family.
Individual family members' files include essays and articles, diaries, notebooks, journals, and collected ephemera related to the Ann Arbor High School and the University of Michigan cultural and social life and campus events. Also contained within the family files are family photographs, land deeds, obituaries, and other family-related documents. Family correspondence constitutes the majority of files in this collection. Correspondence is arranged in two sub-series: James and Roda Pollock correspondence, and Individual correspondence. James and Roda Pollock correspondence was received arranged chronologically through 1940 (James B. Pollok died in 1934), with several correspondence files that have been arranged by the sender (the Georg family, H. H. Bartlett, and J. Sunderland).
6 folders
James B. Pollock files include his professional correspondence, with letters from F. C. Newcombe, 1899 and 1919-1927, from Edwin C. Bingham (scattered), and materials and correspondence (including personal) related to the Tanager Expedition of 1923. Also included in the sub-series are reprints of Pollock's articles and a small number of manuscripts.
The sub-series contains Roda Pollock's writings and notebooks. Of note are matierials relating to her activities in the University of Michigan Women's Research Club.