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Newspaper cutting with sketch about an old Glasgow tavern – the Peargrove Tavern.

Photograph of the Britannia Panopticon.

Handwritten letter and envelope addressed to A.E. Pickard.

Newspaper cutting with sketch about small tenements on Pollockshaws Road – the remainder of the village of Strathbungo.

Newspaper cuttings about: the experience of an actress, a one man municipal government in America, and a waxwork of an infant Spanish Prince.

Newspaper cutting about general music hall and entertainment news and business; notably an article about a shortage of wild men in New York, plus a poem

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news and business; notably an article about an oriental magic performance in London.

Newspaper cutting and sketch about changes to the Eglington area of Glasgow.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall news and business.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall news and business.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news and business; notably the controversy of living statues and a missing flea from a troupe of performing fleas.

Newspaper cutting with sketch about a painting of Glasgow Green.

Newspaper cutting with sketch about the Townhead district library, Glasgow.

Handwritten Letter.

Newspaper cuttings about: a Rothesay town council meeting, the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, the Palace Theatre and Hippodrome in Warrington, a book about money making, the financial value of advertising, and a sundial in Trongate…

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news; notably the hatching of conjoined ducklings and a palmistry fraud case.

Newspaper cuttings about general entertainment news; notably an Italian boy whose pupils are surrounded by the 12 hours of the clock.

Handwritten letter and notes.

Handwritten letter and White Star Line ticket.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall, entertainment, and current news; notably an advert for A.E. Pickard exhibit Tom Thumb.

Newspaper cuttings about Glasgow landmarks.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall news and business, plus an article about the sale of the old Baileys Session House contents, plus the death of a conjoined twin.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall news.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news and business, plus a collection of wanted adverts.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news and business; notably the controversy of a living statue exhibition and a native choir from Jamaica.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news; notably an attempt to swim the English Channel.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall news and business; notably the death of Mr George Adney Payne.

Newspaper cuttings about: attempts to swim the English Channel, the death of Captain Matthew Webb in the whirlpool rapids at the bottom of Niagara Falls, palmistry in Glasgow, and a new automatic stamp delivery machine.

Newspaper cuttings about: improvements to the Theatre Royal, a dog born without front legs, and the death of detective Robert Pinkerton.

Newspaper cuttings about educationists, the log cabin where Abraham Lincoln was born, and a fire in a Falkirk cinema.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news and business; notably an attempt to swim the English Channel.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news; plus a short story

Newspaper cuttings about general entertainment news; notably

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news and business; notably the death of Mr Herbert Montague - manager of the Gaiety Theatre, Clydebank.

Newspaper cuttings about music hall news and business, plus an article with sketch about the laying of the foundation stone ceremony for the new Mitchell Library, Glasgow.

Newspaper cutting with sketch about

Newspaper cuttings about the master and matron of the London workhouse

Newspaper cuttings about the master and matron of the London workhouse

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall news and business; notably the death of Mr George Adney Payne, and an accident in a Paris music hall.

Newspaper cuttings about the concept of the

Newspaper cuttings about: the concept of the

Newspaper cuttings about: the concept of the

Newspaper sketch of children singing.

Newspaper cuttings about: a sea serpent, the ship Mauretania, a cockerel born with 3 legs and 3 tails, a sword swallowing performers accident, and old architecture in Glasgow.

Newspaper sketch and reference to Yachtsman Sir Thomas Lipton.

Newspaper cuttings about: Yachtsman Sir Thomas Lipton, rowdy music hall audience behaviour, the production of plays on passenger ships, and the decline of rats in Paris.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news and business; notably entertainment on passenger ships and the spotting of a giant sea serpent.

Newspaper cuttings about the Hull Fair.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news and business; notably Alexander Livesy who walked over 1000 miles between Ayr and London pushing a wheel barrow.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall news, plus an article about illegal expenditure by the Glasgow Corporation Municipal Buildings Committee.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news and business.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news and business; notably a dispute between Moss Empires Ltd and music hall performer Marie Lloyd.

Newspaper cutting with sketch about the Garrick Hotel - a building on Stockwell Street Glasgow.

Newspaper cuttings about general entertainment news and business; notably Ituri Forrest Pygmies.

Newspaper cuttings with sketches about the Provand Lordships old Glasgow Exhibition.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news and business; notably a poster of

Handwritten letter and envelope addressed to A.E. Pickard.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news and business; notably the legal status of peep shows, and wedding ceremonies in Gretna Green.

Handwritten note from George Marquis.

Newspaper cuttings about the financing of theatres.

Handwritten letter, envelope, postcard, and small flyer with date and excerpt from the bible.

Handwritten letter and envelope, plus small flyer with date and excerpt from the bible. Also postcard with advert for one of A.E. Pickard

Handwritten letter and newspaper cutting about the changing music hall and interview with performer Mr Shine.

Newspaper cutting about the death of Mr George Adney Payne and the controversy of living statue exhibitions.

Newspaper cutting about a small person Hayati Hassid (30in tall) plus 2 horse photos – one Linus the long maned Oregon wonder horse.

Handwritten letter.

Newspaper cuttings about a perfectly proportioned woman and sea serpents; plus a photograph of a stage.

Handwritten note plus newspaper cuttings about general music hall news and business; notably Californian sea elephants.

Note from Moss Empires Ltd.

Newspaper cuttings about general entertainment news; notably the Dahomey Warriors troupe.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news and business; notably a wrestling match between Ivan Padoubny and Cygavewiez Zbysco.

Newspaper cutting about small person Madam Mite (24in tall), advert for the Peoples Palace and Aquarium in Scarborough, a ticket for a tribute concert, and a poem about drunkenness.

Sketches of performing fleas.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news and business plus an article about the annual meeting of the trustees and managers of the Savings Bank of Glasgow.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall news and business; notably the death of Mr George Adney Payne and a kitten born with 5 heads in Cheshire.

Handwritten note and newspaper cutting about a wrestling match between Ivan Padoubny and Cygavewiez Zbysco.

Newspaper cuttings about music hall business, plus an article with photograph about a school for showmen

Newspaper cutting about opening night at the theatre.

Handwritten index.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news and business; plus an article about a chemist in Detroit whose blood and skin is turning blue due to inhalation of fumes during experiments with aniline dyes.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news and business; notably a 16 year old girl who has been in a coma for a year.