Theodore was the son of the Reverend Theodore Strong Pond and Julia Ida Pond (nee Hanford). He was born in Beirut (probably while his father, the Reverend Pond, was a missionary there) and returned to the states in 1889. He attended the Pratt Institute in New York, worked for Tiffany & Co., and had his own art studio in Baltimore from 1911-1914.
As of was the superintendent of the Department of Fine Arts in the Mechanics Institute of Rochester, New York (later known as the Rochester Institute of Technology).
Bostonians know their city is a special place for arts and culture, with a fascinating bohemian past, the details of which are mostly forgotten. This film re-introduces a mysterious but influential group of 1890s friends that included photographer/publisher F. Holland Day (a mentor to both Kahlil Gibran and William Steichen) writer/architect Ralph Adams Cram, poet Louise Imogen Guiney, Painter Thomas Buford Meteyard, and designer/architect Bertram Goodhue. Together they launched a quest to preserve beauty, truth, and friendship in a rapidly changing world.