Social History, Variety Theatre, Skating Rinks
Newspaper cuttings about incidents in the Prince of Wales Theatre London and Theatre Royal Glasgow.
Pickard's Papers: Rinkeries and Theatre Items No 55
Pickard's Papers project. Britannia Panopticon Music Hall Trust / University of Glasgow / Heritage Lottery Fund
This material is made available for non-commercial research and education purposes, and no copyright infringement is intended. If the material is still in copyright, or contains sensitive information, please contact us and we will take it down.
Newspaper cuttings about general music hall news and business; notably a fire at the Pavilion Theatre Glasgow.
Pickard's Papers: Rinkeries and Theatre Items No 56
Newspaper cuttings about the Olympia Theatre Glasgow.
Pickard's Papers: Rinkeries and Theatre Items No 57
Newspaper cuttings about general music hall/cinema news and business.
Pickard's Papers: Rinkeries and Theatre Items No 58
Newspaper cuttings about: an incident at the Prince of Wales Theatre London, The Markets Committee, and The Theatres and Music Hall Committee.
Pickard's Papers: Rinkeries and Theatre Items No 59
Newspaper cuttings about general music hall news; notably music halls vs. theatres and censorship.
Pickard's Papers: Rinkeries and Theatre Items No 60
Newspaper cuttings about general music hall news; notably the first stained glass theatre curtain constructed for the National Theatre of Mexico.
Pickard's Papers: Rinkeries and Theatre Items No 61
Prospectus for the Savoy Theatre (Glasgow) Limited.
Pickard's Papers: Rinkeries and Theatre Items No 62
Pickard's Papers: Rinkeries and Theatre Items No 63
Newspaper cuttings about: the Argyle Picture Theatre, Edinburgh Marine Gardens, theatre manager Mr Percy Humphry, the influence of music halls on children, and Mr John Edwin Tussaud.
Pickard's Papers: Rinkeries and Theatre Items No 64
Newspaper cuttings about the history of the Alhambra Theatre, Glasgow.
Pickard's Papers: Rinkeries and Theatre Items No 65
Newspaper cuttings about: the effect of music halls on crime levels, the wedding anniversary of ventriloquist Prince Bendon, billposting, and a performance for the King at the Empire Theatre, Edinburgh.
Pickard's Papers: Rinkeries and Theatre Items No 66
Pickard's Papers: Rinkeries and Theatre Items No 67
Newspaper cutting about: billposting, a false representation case, president of the Wellcroft club John Lindsay, and a fire at the Empire Theatre in Edinburgh.
Pickard's Papers: Rinkeries and Theatre Items No 68
Newspaper cuttings about a fire at the Empire Theatre, Edinburgh.
Pickard's Papers: Rinkeries and Theatre Items No 69
Pickard's Papers: Rinkeries and Theatre Items No 70
Newspaper cuttings about general music hall news and business; notably a fire at the Empire Theatre, Edinburgh.
Pickard's Papers: Rinkeries and Theatre Items No 71
Newspaper cuttings about general music hall news and business; notably the opening of the Olympia Theatre, Glasgow.
Pickard's Papers: Rinkeries and Theatre Items No 72
Newspaper cuttings about the 20th annual meeting of the Blackpool Tower Company.
Pickard's Papers: Rinkeries and Theatre Items No 73
Pickard's Papers: Rinkeries and Theatre Items No 74
Pickard's Papers: Rinkeries and Theatre Items No 75
Pickard's Papers: Rinkeries and Theatre Items No 76
Pickard's Papers: Rinkeries and Theatre Items No 77
Pickard's Papers: Rinkeries and Theatre Items No 78
Pickard's Papers: Rinkeries and Theatre Items No 79
Handwritten letter and envelope addressed to A.E. Pickard.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 8
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 9
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 Glasgow.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 10
Newspaper cuttings about general music hall news and business; notably the death of Mr George Adney Payne.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 11
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.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 12
Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news and business; notably a dispute between Moss Empires Ltd and music hall performer Marie Lloyd.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 13
Newspaper cutting about the death of Mr George Adney Payne and the controversy of living statue exhibitions.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 14
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.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 15
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.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 16
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.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 17
Newspaper cutting with sketch about small tenements on Pollockshaws Road – the remainder of the village of Strathbungo.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 18
Newspaper cuttings about: the experience of an actress, a one man municipal government in America, and a waxwork of an infant Spanish Prince.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 19
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
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 20
Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news and business; notably an article about an oriental magic performance in London.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 21
Newspaper cutting and sketch about changes to the Eglington area of Glasgow.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 22
Newspaper cuttings about general music hall news and business.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 23
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 24
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.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 25
Newspaper cutting with sketch about a painting of Glasgow Green.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 26
Newspaper cutting with sketch about the Townhead district library, Glasgow.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 27
Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news; notably the hatching of conjoined ducklings and a palmistry fraud case.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 28
Newspaper cuttings about general entertainment news; notably an Italian boy whose pupils are surrounded by the 12 hours of the clock.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 29
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 30
Handwritten letter and White Star Line ticket.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 31
Newspaper cuttings about general music hall, entertainment, and current news; notably an advert for A.E. Pickard exhibit Tom Thumb.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 32
Newspaper cuttings about Glasgow landmarks.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 33
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.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 34
Newspaper cuttings about general music hall news.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 35
Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news and business, plus a collection of wanted adverts.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 36
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.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 37
Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news; notably an attempt to swim the English Channel.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 38
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.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 39
Newspaper cuttings about: improvements to the Theatre Royal, a dog born without front legs, and the death of detective Robert Pinkerton.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 40
Newspaper cuttings about educationists, the log cabin where Abraham Lincoln was born, and a fire in a Falkirk cinema.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 41
Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news and business; notably an attempt to swim the English Channel.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 42
Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news; plus a short story
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 43
Newspaper cuttings about general entertainment news; notably
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 44
Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news and business; notably the death of Mr Herbert Montague - manager of the Gaiety Theatre, Clydebank.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 45
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.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 46
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 47
Newspaper cuttings about the master and matron of the London workhouse
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 48
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 49
Newspaper cuttings about the concept of the
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 50
Newspaper cuttings about: the concept of the
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 51
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 52
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 53
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.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 54
Newspaper sketch and reference to Yachtsman Sir Thomas Lipton.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 55
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.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 56
Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news and business; notably entertainment on passenger ships and the spotting of a giant sea serpent.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 57
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 58
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.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 59
Newspaper cuttings about general music hall news, plus an article about illegal expenditure by the Glasgow Corporation Municipal Buildings Committee.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 60
Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news and business.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 61
Newspaper cutting with sketch about the Garrick Hotel - a building on Stockwell Street Glasgow.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 62
Newspaper cuttings about general entertainment news and business; notably Ituri Forrest Pygmies.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 63
Newspaper cuttings with sketches about the Provand Lordships old Glasgow Exhibition.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 64
Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news and business; notably a poster of
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 65
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 66
Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news and business; notably the legal status of peep shows, and wedding ceremonies in Gretna Green.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 67
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 68
Newspaper cuttings about the financing of theatres.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 69
Handwritten letter, envelope, postcard, and small flyer with date and excerpt from the bible.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 70
Handwritten letter and envelope, plus small flyer with date and excerpt from the bible. Also postcard with advert for one of A.E. Pickard
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 71
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 72
Handwritten letter and newspaper cutting about the changing music hall and interview with performer Mr Shine.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 73
Newspaper cutting about a small person Hayati Hassid (30in tall) plus 2 horse photos – one Linus the long maned Oregon wonder horse.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 74
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 75
Newspaper cuttings about a perfectly proportioned woman and sea serpents; plus a photograph of a stage.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 76
Handwritten note plus newspaper cuttings about general music hall news and business; notably Californian sea elephants.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 77
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 78
Newspaper cuttings about general entertainment news; notably the Dahomey Warriors troupe.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 79
Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news and business; notably a wrestling match between Ivan Padoubny and Cygavewiez Zbysco.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 80
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.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 81
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 82
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.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 83
Handwritten note and newspaper cutting about a wrestling match between Ivan Padoubny and Cygavewiez Zbysco.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 84
Newspaper cuttings about music hall business, plus an article with photograph about a school for showmen
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 85
Newspaper cutting about opening night at the theatre.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 86
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 87
BP14.01 Inside front cover Scrapbook page
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 88
BP14.01 Inside back cover Scrapbook page
Newspaper cutting with sketch about an old Glasgow tavern – the Peargrove Tavern.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 89
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon, museum, a selection of wanted adverts posted by Pickard, plus letters to Miss Lucy Moore (one of Pickard's exhibits) applying to be her husband in response to a newspaper advert.
Pickard's Papers: Panopticon Museum Vol 3
Letter to Miss Lucy Moore (one of A.E. Pickard's exhibits).
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum; plus a collection of wanted adverts posted by Pickard, and a humorous postcard - "Required - a Husband", which on the back has a handwritten note to Miss Lucy Moore.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon, museum, and the funeral of JH Kavanagh. Also a collection of wanted adverts posted by Pickard and a handwritten addressed envelope.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon, museum, and the funeral of JH Kavanagh. Also a collection of wanted adverts posted by Pickard and a handwritten note.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon; plus a wanted advert posted by Pickard in The Music Hall trade paper looking for "freaks, novelties and attractions".
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum; plus wanted adverts posted by Pickard.
Newspaper cuttings about: the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum, particularly W Ashmore Gill's world record in club swinging. Also article about the game of billiards, and wanted adverts posted by Pickard.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum. Including Lady Vere de Vere the Tattooed Beauty, the Chronophone, and American Bioscope.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum, plus notices about the birth of A.E. Pickard's son.
Newspaper advert from The World's Fair for A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum. With three images.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum in Forward, Weekly Record, Evening Citizen and Scottish Referee. Note on leaving of Harry Bowerman from Glasgow to Manchester; plus wanted adverts posted by Pickard in The Era.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum in the Evening Times, Daily Record, Forward, and Glasgow News. Panopticon showing film of Tommy Burns and Gunner Moir boxing match and the Chronophone.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum in the Evening Times, Glasgow News, Record and Mail, and Citizen. Advert [presumably from the Glasgow Programme] with Pickard's portrait, advertising Carnival and Roof Gardens, and Lady Vere de Vere.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum in the Evening Citizen, Record and Mail, Glasgow News, Scottish Referee, Weekly Record, and the Stage. Claiming to have had 23,565 visitors on New Year's Day.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum in the Scottish Referee, Weekly Record, Glasgow News, Evening Times, Evening Citizen, Record and Mail, ant The Stage. Featuring escape artist Empress and the Thaw Tragedy, plus chronophone.
Social History, Variety Theatre, Pantomime
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum in the Glasgow News, Evening Citizen, Record and Mail, Evening Times. Showing the Thaw tragedy (descriptive drama), tattooed lady, chronophone, etc. Also advertisements for the pantomime at the Grand Theatre.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum in the Evening Citizen, Record and Mail, Forward, Scottish Referee, The Stage. Showing Thaw tragedy bioscope pictures, 'A night in Venice' on the chronophone, the South Sea islanders, etc.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum in the Evening Times, Scottish Referee, Record and Mail, Forward. With the Thaw tragedy pictures, chronophone, South Sea islanders, etc.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum from the Scottish Referee, Forward, Evening Citizen, Stage, Era, Glasgow News, Record and Mail, Evening Times. Also articles about the auxetophone, a new, louder 'talking machine', with Harry Lauder recordings.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum, the auxetophone, and adverts seeking performers.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum in Glasgow News, Evening Citizen, Record and Mail, Forward, Scottish Referee, World's Fair. Featuring comic singer Flo Varley, and the auxetophone with records La Tetrazzini (opera), Harry Lauder's 'Stop your ticklin' jock', and 'The march of the Cameron men' by Andrew Black.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum in the Evening Times, Glasgow News, Scottish Referee, Evening Citizen, Daily Record, Forward. Featuring Ida Campbell 'the original Half Lady'.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum. Article from the World's Fair, "A visit to the Scotch museum", illustrated with a block print of the 'Half Lady'. Article describes Pickard as "the Barnum of the North" and refers to the knowledge required to be a successful showman.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum in the Scottish Referee, Record and Mail, Evening Citizen, Evening Times, Weekly Record. Article from the Glasgow Programme with block print of the 'Half Lady', now named as Claire Laroche. She is described in full, with attention to her talent for languages and soprano voice.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum; plus an article about loans from the South Kensington Museum to Glasgow Museums.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum in Forward, Evening Citizen, Evening Times, Record and Mail, Scottish Referee. Featuring films of the Grand National and the Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum, featuring film of the Grand National and the Cambridge Boat Race, etc. Notice of the death of Pickard's son Herbert Cecil.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum in the Glasgow News, Evening Times, Evening Citizen, Scottish Referee, Record and Mail. Featuring 'the Half Lady' and films 'The Shaughraun' and 'Darkness to Light'.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum. Films being shown include the football Cup Tie final (Newcastle-Wolverhampton), the funeral procession of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman at Meigle, and 'The escape from the Harem'.
Advert for A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum in Glasgow Programme, and article - "A Noah's Ark for Glasgow", with photo of Pickard's advertising van.
Small advertising card for A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum. Article in the Glasgow Programme about E. H. Bostock's zoo, with photographs of Bostock and the zoo's new arrivals - a lion and some leopard [?] cubs.
Newspaper cuttings and photographs about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum, featuring Tom Thumb, "the smallest man on Earth" [this is not the famous, original Tom Thumb]. Also included are adverts for the Scottish Zoo and Zoo-Hippodrome, featuring films and wrestling.
Newspaper cuttings for the Scottish Zoo in the Record and Mail, Weekly Record. Large flyer for E.H. Bostock's zoo, billed as "the Modern Noah's Ark".
Newspaper cuttings about E.H. Bostock's zoo and Wombwell's menagerie in the Scottish Referee, Weekly Record, Record and Mail.
Newspaper cuttings about E.H. Bostock's zoo and Wombwell's menagerie in Scottish Referee, Glasgow News, Record and Mail, Evening Citizen.
Newspaper cuttings about E.H. Bostock's zoo and Wombwell's menagerie in Weekly Record, Scottish Referee, Glasgow Programme, Record and Mail
Newspaper cuttings about Bostock's Scottish Zoo, and large flyer.
Newspaper cuttings about E.H. Bostock's zoo and Wombwell's menagerie in Scottish Referee, Record and Mail.
Newspaper cuttings about E.H. Bostock's zoo and Wombwell's menagerie in Scottish Referee, Daily Record, Glasgow News.
Social History, Variety Theatre, Hobbies, Model Yachting
Newspaper cuttings about E.H. Bostock's zoo and Wombwell's menagerie; plus a handwritten letter and booklet from Dennistoun Model Yacht Club.
Letter and list of possible titles for A.E. Pickard's press announcements/adverts. Also an article the National Cash Register Company.
List of possible titles for A.E. Pickard's press announcements/adverts, plus an article about the arrival of Dutch journalists in Glasgow after walking from Amsterdam via Calais.
Typescript list of possible titles for A.E. Pickard's press announcements/adverts.
List of possible titles for A.E. Pickard's press announcements/adverts.
List of winners and entries from a limerick competition run by A.E Pickard.
List of winners and entries from a limerick competition run by A.E Pickard, continued.
List of winners and entries from a limerick competition run by A.E Pickard, continued
List of possible titles for A.E. Pickard's press announcements/adverts, plus a photograph of a baby incubator, and an article about a murder in New York.
Handwritten list of possible titles for A.E. Pickard's press announcements/adverts.
Copy of a postcard addressed to Harry Lauder and an article about the death of a Robert Burns relative.
Newspaper cutting about performers, the 'Piccolo Midgets' at the Panopticon. German-born comedians.
Handwritten letter from George Edmunds, accepting to take on work at Pickard's Clydebank venue, on the same wages as he was getting at the Panopticon. Letter from James Govan, a 16-year-old from Bishopbriggs who wanted to work for Pickard.
Spine marked by hand: Panopticon & Museum Sep. 9th 1907 - May 15th 1908. Vol. 3.
This material is made available for non-commercial research and education purposes, and no copyright infringement is intended.
Newspaper cuttings about the business of Moss Empires Ltd, its founder Sir Henry Moss, and the history of the business.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs Britannia Panopticon and museum, a music hall strike, and fire at the Palace of Varieties in Lancaster.
Newspaper cuttings with image about the Royal Aquarium, Rothesay.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs Britannia Panopticon and museum, a music hall strike, and Sacco ﾓthe fasting manﾔ.
Newspaper cuttings with image about criminal ﾓScotch Jamieﾒsﾔ release from prison.
Newspaper cuttings about the death of Tom Thumb (Richard Garnsey) and a music hall strike.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs Britannia Panopticon and Saint Valentine.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs Britannia Panopticon and Museum, a music hall strike, theatre riots in Dublin, and the demolition of the Earls Court Wheel.
Newspaper drawing and article about the Schipka pass in Turkey, and a subterranean fair in Gallowgate, Glasgow.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs Britannia Panopticon and museum, a music hall strike, cases of fasting, plus a notice about police presence in the Canterbury Theatre.
Newspaper cuttings about the opening night of the Scala Theatre and a music hall strike.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs Britannia Panopticon and museum, a music hall strike, and a meeting of Howard & Wyndham shareholders.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs Britannia Panopticon and museum, plus a newspaper drawing about Howard and Wyndham.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs Britannia Panopticon and museum, and a music hall strike.
Newspaper cuttings about a sale at Rothesay Aquarium, the bankruptcy of music hall proprietor Bernard Armstrong, the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs Britannia Panopticon and museum, a music hall strike, a potential new amusement place for Glasgow, plus an advert for a husband, and a letter addressed to Miss Lucy Moore (one of Pickardﾒs exhibits).
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs Britannia Panopticon and museum, the Scala Theatre, a music hall strike, the assault of the Pavilion Theatre manager, plus a photograph and article about Mr R.C. Buchanan ﾖ the MD of the Grand Theatre in Glasgow and his acquisition of the Howard and Wyndham theatres.
Newspaper drawing and article about a fair in Gallowgate, Glasgow.
Newspaper cuttings about A.E. Pickardﾒs Britannia Panopticon and museum, a music hall dispute, Rothesay Aquarium, food and fasting, a pea eating contest, and Johnny Trundley ﾓthe Peckham fat boyﾔ.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs Britannia Panopticon and museum, the Waterloo Rooms in Glasgow, plus an advert for a husband for Miss Lucy Moore ﾖ one of Pickardﾒs exhibits.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs Britannia Panopticon and museum, Johnny Trundley ﾓthe fatboy of Peckhamﾔ, the end of a music hall strike, controversy surrounding the screening of the Berlin steamship disaster, plus an article about food and fasting.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs Britannia Panopticon and museum, a palmistry fraud case, a charity show for families affected by the steamship Berlin sinking disaster, a man falling off a theatre balcony, the programme of the Waterloo Rooms, plus an article about a clothes auctioneer.
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs Britannia Panopticon and Museum, a disturbance at the Regent Theatre, dancer Jules Renaudin ﾓValentine the Bonelessﾔ, plus an exhibit at Stewarts waxworks.