Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 75
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Newspaper cuttings about a perfectly proportioned woman and sea serpents; plus a photograph of a stage.
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Handwritten note plus newspaper cuttings about general music hall news and business; notably Californian sea elephants.
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Newspaper cuttings about general entertainment news; notably the Dahomey Warriors troupe.
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Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news and business; notably a wrestling match between Ivan Padoubny and Cygavewiez Zbysco.
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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.
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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.
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Handwritten note and newspaper cutting about a wrestling match between Ivan Padoubny and Cygavewiez Zbysco.
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Newspaper cuttings about music hall business, plus an article with photograph about a school for showmen
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Newspaper cutting about opening night at the theatre.
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BP14.01 Inside front cover Scrapbook page
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Newspaper cutting with sketch about an old Glasgow tavern – the Peargrove Tavern.
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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.
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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.
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Spine marked by hand: Panopticon & Museum Sep. 9th 1907 - May 15th 1908. Vol. 3.
Pickard's Papers: Rinkeries and Theatre Items No 25
Advertisment for the Ibrox Picture Palace Performances for the week commencing Monday, 4th September
Advertisment for the Ibrox Picture Palace Performances for the week commencing Monday, 11th September
Information about the renovation of Ibrox Picture Palace, results of the first performance inside the Palace.
Information that the Pbrox Picture Palace is to be opened on Monday evening and assurance that it will be amazing.
Advertisment for the Ibrox Picture Palace
Advertisment for the Ibrox Picture Palace Performances on the week commencing Monday, 18th September
Advertisment and prase for the Ibrox Picture Palace Performances on the week commencing Monday, 18th September
Advertisment for the Ibrox Picture Palace Performances
Review of Ibrox Picture Palace performances
Review for the Ibrox Picture Palace Performances
Account pf the popularity of picture palaces and list of cinemas
A countdown of Glasgow's picture theaters with the most interesting programmes