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Newspaper cutting from Glasgow News with an article about Copenhagen written by Neil Munro. The article describes a journey to Copenhagen, Denmark. At first, the author gives details about the travel to Denmark through the German Empire (Hanover,…

Tags: copenhagen, denmark, geography, travel

BP1306-01 In Search of an Arctic Continent

Newspaper cutting featuring an article about British explorer's A.H.Harrison's expedition to the Arctic shores of Canada. The article illustrates the course of his journey.

Tags: arctic, canada, eskimo, expedition, travel

BP1307-01 Shopgirls of Paris

Newspaper cutting featuring an article about the life of shopgirls in Paris. The article gives a detailed description of young Parisians - 'Midinettes'. It focuses on their admirable sense of style and grace, their habits and everyday life.

Tags: fashion, france, paris, shop, style, travel

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Travel card for tram No. 23, Hamburg, Germany, departing from Veddel, Hamburg. The ticket also contains itinerary, timetable, serial number and fare - 10 pfennigs.

Tags: Germany, Hamburg, tourism, tram, travel

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Travel card for tram No. 23, Hamburg, Germany, departing from Veddel, Hamburg. The ticket also contains itinerary, timetable, serial number and fare - 10 pfennigs.

Tags: Germany, Hamburg, tourism, tram, travel

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Travel card for tram No. 2, Hamburg, Germany, departing from Wandsbek, Hamburg. The ticket also contains itinerary, timetable, serial number and fare - 10 pfennigs.

Tags: Germany, Hamburg, tourism, tram, travel

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Travel card for tram No. 2, Hamburg, Germany, departing from Wandsbek, Hamburg. The ticket also contains itinerary, timetable, serial number and fare - 10 pfennigs.

Tags: Germany, Hamburg, tourism, tram, travel

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Pair of tram tickets from Hamburg to Altona, fare - 10 pfennigs.

Tags: Berlin, Germany, Hamburg, tourism, train, travel

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Pair of seat reservations for express train No.15 Hamburg-Altona-Berlin with seat and carriage numbers.

Tags: Berlin, Germany, tourism, tram, travel

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Berlin tram ticket to Leipziger Platz.

Tags: Berlin, Germany, tourism, tram, travel

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Pair of Zoo admission tickets, fee - 50 pfennigs.

Tags: animals, Germany, zoo

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Berlin tram ticket to Leipziger Platz.

Tags: Berlin, Germany, tourism, tram, travel

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Pair of travel cards for tram No. 23, Hamburg, Germany, departing from Veddel, Hamburg. The ticket also contains itinerary with a blue mark before Altona Street. It also contains timetable, serial number and fare - 10 pfennigs.

Tags: Germany, Hamburg, tourism, tram, travel

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Pair of tram tickets from Hamburg to Altona, fare - 10 pfennigs.

Tags: Germany, Hamburg, tourism, tram, travel

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Pair of adult admission tickets for Tierpark Hagenbeck, a zoo in Stellingen, a quarter in Hamburg, Germany. Admission fee - 1 mark.

Tags: animals, Germany, Hamburg, zoo

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Berlin tram ticket to Leipziger Platz.

Tags: Berlin, Germany, tourism, tram, travel

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Pair of admission tickets to Carl C.E.Clausen's Etablissement in Hamburg, Germany

Tags: Germany, Hamburg

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Pair of admission tickets to Peters & Muus Theatre of Moving Images at Spielbudenplatz 27-28, Hamburg (now the location of Schmidts Tivoli Theatre), entrance fee - 10 phennigs.

Tags: cinema, Germany, Hamburg, theatre

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Travel card for tram No. 9, Hamburg, Germany. It contains itinerary, timetable, serial number, fare - 10 pfennigs, and notes about changes to public transport services. In the bottom-right there is an advertisement for Carl Hagenbeck's Tierpark - a…

Tags: Germany, Hamburg, tourism, tram, travel

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Travel card for tram No. 5, Hamburg, Germany. It contains itinerary, timetable, serial number, fare - 10 pfennigs, and notes about changes to public transport services. In the bottom-right there is an advertisement for Carl Hagenbeck's Tierpark - a…

Tags: Germany, Hamburg, tourism, tram, travel

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Pair of admission tickets to Cabaret Unter den Linden, Berlin, Germany. Entrance fee - 2 marks.

Tags: Berlin, cabaret, Germany, theatre

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Pair of standing tickets to Metropol Theater.

Tags: cinema, Germany, Hamburg, theatre

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Advertisement for Passage-Kaufhaus, a department store on Friedrich Street, Berlin.

Tags: advertisement, Berlin, Germany, shopping

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Admission ticket to Berlin Wintergarten Theatre, entrance fee - 1,50 Marks.

Tags: Berlin, Germany, theatre

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Receipt for Hammonia Hotel in Hamburg, St.Pauli, Germany, fee - 10 marks.

Tags: Germany, Hamburg, hotel, travel

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Acknowledgment of receipt.

Tags: Germany, Hamburg, hotel, travel

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Pair of admission tickets to Passage-Panopticum, a theatre and wax museum in Berlin. Valid only for weekday afternoons, entrance fee - 50 pfennigs.

Tags: Berlin, entertainment, Germany, museum, theatre

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Pair of admission tickets to American entertainment park White City in Berlin.

Tags: amusement, Berlin, entertainment, Germany, park

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Pair of admission tickets to Castan's Panopticum, a wax museum and theatre, on Friedrich Street, Berlin. Fee - 20 pfennigs.

Tags: Berlin, entertainment, Germany, museum, theatre

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Poster advertising Panoptikum A.G. in Hamburg and its attractions - spectacular illusions, maze, kaleidoscope, fright chamber, anatomy museum. One entrance fee for all the attractions - 50 pfennnigs.

Tags: attractions, chamber, Germany, Hamburg, illusion, maze, museum, theatre

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Three Berlin tram ticket to Leipziger Platz.

Tags: Berlin, Germany, tourism, tram, travel

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Pair of admission tickets to White City Variete theatre, in Berlin, Germany.

Tags: Berlin, entertainment, Germany, theatre

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Coupon for admission to M.Schumann Circus Gallery, Germany.

Tags: attractions, circus, entertainment, Germany, schumann, theatre

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Pair of Hannover tram tickets, fare - 10 pfennigs.

Tags: Germany, Hannover, tourism, tram, travel

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Admission ticket to Nick Kaufmann & Co., Roller Skating in Berlin. Entrance fee - 50 pfennigs.

Tags: Berlin, entertainment, Germany, skating, sport

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Bill from Rudolf Dressel restaurant in Berlin, Germany.

Tags: Berlin, Germany, restaurant, wine

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Bill from the restaurant on train Altona - Berlin

Tags: Altona, Berlin, food, Germany, restaurant, train

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Pair of seat reservations for express train No.22 Berlin - Cologne with seat and carriage numbers.

Tags: Berlin, Cologne, Germany, tourism, train, travel

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Pair of Hannover tram tickets, fare - 10 pfennigs.

Tags: Germany, Hannover, tourism, tram, travel

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Three coupons for admission to M.Schumann Circus Gallery, Germany.

Tags: attractions, circus, entertainment, Germany, schumann, theatre

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Receipt for Hotel Bauer in Berlin, Germany, issued to Mr Pickard and Mr Robbin. Fee - 19, 50 marks.

Tags: Berlin, Germany, hotel, Pickard, Robbin, tourism, travel

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Pair of seat reservations for express train No.98 Kiel - Cologne with seat and carriage numbers.

Tags: Cologne, Germany, Kiel, tourism, train, travel

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Pair of admission tickets to Palais D'Ete (Summer Palace), France. Entrance fee - 1 franc.

Tags: entertainment, france, tourism, travel

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Travel card for the tram in Antwerp.

Tags: antwerp, belgium, french, tourism, tram, travel

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Tram ticket.

Tags: dutch, french, ticket, tourism, tram, travel

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Ticket with a stamp and blue mark on it.

Tags: ticket, tourism, travel

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Receipt for Hotel Royal in Hannover, Germany, issued to Mr Pickard. Fee - 13, 50 marks.

Tags: Germany, Hannover, hotel, Pickard, tourism, travel

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Contract victualling coupon for Geo. Gibson & Co.'s Continental Steamer, issued for Mr.Robbins.

Tags: steamer, tourism, travel, voyage

BP1315b-01 Castan's Panoptikum

Poster advertising Castan's Panoptikum in Cologne, which hosts more than 1000 objects and attractions.

Tags: attractions, cinema, circus, Cologne, entertainment, fasting, Germany, museum, theatre

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Poster advertising a show featuring a tattooed lady whose body is covered with portraits of the Queen of Holland, the King of Italy, Queen Victoria, Goethe, Beethoven, etc.

Tags: dutch, freak, french, show, tattoo

BP1317-01 My Trip to Germany

Newspaper cutting featuring an article titled My Trip to Germany, British in Disguise. The article draws upon similarities and differences between British people and the Germans, as observed during a three-week long trip to Germany.

Tags: Britain, Germany, society, tourism, travel, trip

Britannia Panopticon

Flyer for the reopening of the Panopticon. Original has section cut off.

Giants

Photographs of unusually tall people

Entertainment Tax cartoon

Cartoon from the Bioscope about Glaswegian schoolboy Hugh Brown, who was reputed to be the first person in the UK to pay the new entertainments tax by buying a ticket to Pickard's American Museum at 9.40am on 19 May 1916.

Everybody skates

Cartoon from an investment prospect for the Olympia skating rink in London. Depicts all members of a family skating while an older woman watches, and a rhyme:
"Everybody skates but mother,
She sits around all day,
Looking very cross as…

Political advertising on a tram ticket

Election flyer for council candidate Moir, in the form of a tram ticket

BP0911-02 Rights of the Worker

Cartoon showing two baboons in a cage, reading the newspaper and talking about demanding better work conditions.

Catalogue of the Important Sale By Auction of All the Live Stock Forming The Scottish Zoo.

Two cover pages of auction catalogues (one blue, one orange) detailing the animals being sold at auction from The Scottish Zoo on New City Road, Glasgow. The catalogue cover states that the collection animals will be displayed during the auction,…

Tags: animals, auction catalogue, E.H Bostock, New City Road, The Scottish Zoo

Conditions of Sale/Catalogue.

The first page of the catalogue describes the conditions of sale for bidders purchasing animals in The Scottish Zoo auction. The conditions of sale are specific and require bidders to (among other things) agree to uplift the animals they buy by 5pm…

Tags: animals, auction catalogue, conditions of sale, E.H Bostock, The Scottish Zoo

Catalogue.

Continuation of the list of animals available for purchase at The Scottish Zoo auction. The diverse variety of animals on sale and the descriptions which accompany them are indicative of not only the ambitious nature of the zoo when it was in…

Tags: animals, auction catalogue, boxing, kangaroo, The Scottish Zoo

Catalogue.

Continuation of the list of animals available for purchase at The Scottish Zoo auction. Particularly notable is the mention of a female Chimpanzee who carries the following lofty description: One of the best animals ever seen in this country. Very…

Tags: animals, auction catalogue, chimpanzee, elephant, The Scottish Zoo

Catalogue.

Continuation of the list of animals available for purchase at The Scottish Zoo auction. Particularly notable is the mention of the Australian Gin Gin Bird, who, according to the catalogues author is one of the finest whistlers ever heard. This…

Tags: animals, auction catalogue, Australia, Gin Gin Bird, The Scottish Zoo, whistling, Yankee

Catalogue.

Last page of the list of animals available for purchase at The Scottish Zoo auction. As with the other pages of the catalogue there is a significant amount of scrawled handwriting which seems to pertain to the certain animals the writer wishes to…

Tags: alligator, animals, auction catalogue, lion, python, rat, The Scottish Zoo

The Scottish Zoo. Admission to Sale.

Ticket admitting the owner entry to the auction of the animals comprising The Scottish Zoo. The ticket states that a refund of the ticket price (2/6) will be given to those who purchase animals, perhaps an incentive designed to encourage bidding.

Tags: animals, auction, sale, The Scottish Zoo, ticket

Gorilla Catches Influenza and Succumbs.

Short article describing the brief life of Dick the Gorilla who, after being removed from Africa and brought to the Regents Park zoo in London by the African explorer Dr. Ansorge, found the new climate uninhabitable and died from influenza. The…

Tags: Dick the Gorilla, Dr. Ansorge, Gaboon, influenza, London, Regents Park, zoo

In A Serpents Coils.

Short article detailing a potentially fatal incident which occurred in the Bronx Zoo, whereupon a zoo keeper accidentally fell into the muscular grip of a boa constrictor snake. The article describes how 15 men were required to remove the man from…

Tags: boa constrictor, incident, the Bronx Zoo

The Rights of the Worker.

Cartoon of two baboons reading newspapers and an accompanying caption. The piece is entitled The Rights of the Worker and is presumably a satirical comment on the rights of the working classes to a fair share of the profits they help turn over for…

Tags: baboons, cartoon, humour, satire, Simian, the Evening Times, working classes

A Cargo of Alligators.

Short article from the Evening Citizen describing the voyage of the biggest consignment of live alligators ever shipped across the Atlantic. According to a wireless message received from the ship the animals were travelling on (the Minnetonka), all…

Tags: Alligators, Bostock, Earls Court, Minnetonka, ship, travel

The Parrots Egg.

A letter addressed to the editor of the Glasgow News describing how a pet parrot, who has been in the readers family for 30 years, marked the occasion of its birthday by laying a nice white egg. The sender of the letter believes that this may be some…

Tags: egg, Glasgow News Editor, Parrot, world record

Stone-Eating Elephant.

Short article detailing the peculiar case of an elephant who consumed vast quantities of stones, precisely 168 stones, weighing altogether 7lb. 13oz. The case was presented to the Zoological Society by Dr. A. Smith Woodward and the stones were found…

Tags: crocodiles, Dr. A. Smith Woodward, quartzite, Stone-eating elephant

Scottish Sea Serpent.

Drawing of 8 sailors presenting the rare oar-fish they caught, referring to the real-life capture of the fish which was caught near Dunbar. According to the pictures caption the fish measured 13 feet 10 inches in length. Judging from the drawing, the…

Tags: Dunbar, fishing, haul, oar-fish, rare fish, Sailor

The Missing Link.

Article from the Daily Record and Mail detailing the acquisition of a new female chimpanzee for The Scottish Zoo. The article describes how the chimpanzee is intended to fill the shoes of the late Wee Macgreegor, a beloved creature who the writer…

Tags: Bostock, chimpanzee, Congo, Darwin, Missing Link, monkeys, The Scottish Zoo, Wee Macgreegor

Le Lever De Consul.

Collection of photographs depicting the morning routine of Consul the wonderfully trained monkey, an attraction of Bostocks Jungle at the Earls Court Exhibition. The text at the bottom of the collection indicates what each photograph represents, for…

Tags: Bostocks Jungle, Consul, Earls Court Exhibition, monkey, The Sketch

Fate of the Zoo.

Short article detailing Councillor Bostocks decision to close The Scottish Zoo and Hippodrome on New City Road, Glasgow, in order to make way for a brand new skating rink. According to the author the sport was apparently all the rage at the time and,…

Tags: Councillor Bostock, demolition, hippodrome, New City Road, skating rink, The Scottish Zoo

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