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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',…

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…

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 in Glasgow News, Evening Citizen, Record and Mail, Forward, Scottish Referee, World's Fair. Featuring comic singer Flo Varley, and the auxetophone with records…

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 from the Scottish Referee, Forward, Evening Citizen, Stage, Era, Glasgow News, Record and Mail, Evening Times.
Also articles about the auxetophone, a new,…

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 in the Evening Citizen, Record and Mail, Forward, Scottish Referee, The Stage. Showing Thaw tragedy bioscope pictures, 'A night in Venice' on the chronophone,…

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…

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…

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 Evening Times, Glasgow News, Record and Mail, and Citizen. Advert [presumably from the Glasgow Programme] with Pickard's portrait, advertising Carnival…

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 Forward, Weekly Record, Evening Citizen and Scottish Referee. Note on leaving of Harry Bowerman from Glasgow to Manchester; plus wanted adverts posted by…

Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum.

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; plus wanted adverts posted by Pickard.

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 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, 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; plus wanted adverts posted by Pickard.

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; plus a wanted advert posted by Pickard in The Music Hall trade paper looking for "freaks, novelties and attractions".

Handwritten postcard.

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, 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 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…

Letter to Miss Lucy Moore (one of A.E. Pickard's exhibits).

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…

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

Photograph of the Britannia Panopticon.

Handwritten index.

Newspaper cutting about opening night at the theatre.

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

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

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.

Sketches of performing fleas.

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.

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

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

Note from Moss Empires Ltd.

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

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

Handwritten letter.

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

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

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

Newspaper cuttings about the financing of theatres.

Handwritten note from George Marquis.

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 letter and envelope addressed to A.E. Pickard.

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

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

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

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

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

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; notably Alexander Livesy who walked over 1000 miles between Ayr and London pushing a wheel barrow.

Newspaper cuttings about the Hull Fair.

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

Newspaper sketch and reference to Yachtsman Sir Thomas Lipton.

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 of children singing.

Newspaper cuttings about: the concept of the

Newspaper cuttings about: the concept of the

Newspaper cuttings about the concept of the

Newspaper cuttings about the master and matron of the London workhouse

Newspaper cuttings about the master and matron of the London workhouse

Newspaper cutting with sketch about

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 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 general entertainment news; notably

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

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

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

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

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

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 and business, plus a collection of wanted adverts.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall news.

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 Glasgow landmarks.

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

Handwritten letter and White Star Line ticket.

Handwritten letter and notes.

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

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

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

Newspaper cutting with sketch about a painting of Glasgow Green.

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 cuttings about general music hall news and business.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall news and business.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 news and business; notably the death of Mr George Adney Payne and a kitten born with 5 heads in Cheshire.

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

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

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…

Handwritten Letter.

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

Photo of one of the Pickard scrapbooks, open in the cardboard box in which they were acquired.

Handwritten index.

Handwritten index.

Portrait photographs.

Newspaper cuttings about the 20th annual meeting of the Blackpool Tower Company.

Newspaper cuttings about the 20th annual meeting of the Blackpool Tower Company.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall news and business; notably the opening of the Olympia Theatre, Glasgow.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall news and business; notably a fire at the Empire Theatre, Edinburgh.

Newspaper cuttings about a fire at the Empire Theatre, Edinburgh.

Newspaper cuttings about a fire at the Empire Theatre, Edinburgh.

Newspaper cutting about: billposting, a false representation case, president of the Wellcroft club John Lindsay, and a fire at the Empire Theatre in Edinburgh.

Newspaper cutting about billposting.

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.

Newspaper cuttings about the history of the Alhambra Theatre, Glasgow.

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.

Plan for the Savoy Theatre Glasgow.

Prospectus for the Savoy Theatre (Glasgow) Limited.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall news; notably the first stained glass theatre curtain constructed for the National Theatre of Mexico.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall news; notably music halls vs. theatres and censorship.

Newspaper cuttings about: an incident at the Prince of Wales Theatre London, The Markets Committee, and The Theatres and Music Hall Committee.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall/cinema news and business.

Newspaper cuttings about the Olympia Theatre Glasgow.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall news and business; notably a fire at the Pavilion Theatre Glasgow.

Newspaper cuttings about incidents in the Prince of Wales Theatre London and Theatre Royal Glasgow.

Newspaper article about a new theatre for Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow.

Charity sports sponsorship form.

Note about a Glasgow Amalgamated Amusements Charity Sports meeting.

Flyer for newspaper advertisements.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall news and business; notably the death of music hall performer Lottie Collins.

Newspaper cuttings about Moss Empires annual shareholders meeting and arrests for rioting in Celtic Park, Glasgow.

Handwritten notes about the Glasgow Amalgamated Amusements Charity Sports.

Newspaper cuttings about charity sports, a new Glasgow theatre, and the death of music hall manager Tom Barrasford.

Newspaper cuttings about charity sports, a new Glasgow theatre, and a drawing of a proposed procession route.

Programme for Glasgow Amalgamated Amusements Charity Sports.

Entry form for the Scottish Amateur Athletic Association.

Newspaper cuttings and handwritten note about charity sports.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall news and business, plus a poem about Dr Walford Bodie

Newspaper cuttings about the trial of students arrested for rioting in the Coliseum Theatre, Glasgow; plus a cutting about the Safety of Children at Entertainments, Children

Newspaper cuttings about the trial of students arrested for rioting in the Coliseum Theatre, Glasgow.

Newspaper cuttings about the reception of music hall performer Dr Walford Bodie

Newspaper cuttings about the reception of music hall performer Dr Walford Bodie

Newspaper cuttings about the reception of music hall performer Dr Walford Bodie

Newspaper cuttings about the reception of music hall performer Dr Walford Bodie

Newspaper cuttings about the reception of music hall performer Dr Walford Bodie

Newspaper cuttings about the reception of music hall performer Dr Walford Bodie

Newspaper cuttings about the reception of music hall performer Dr Walford Bodie

Newspaper cuttings about the reception of music hall performer Dr Walford Bodie

Newspaper cuttings about the reception of music hall performer Dr Walford Bodie

Newspaper cuttings about the reception of music hall performer Dr Walford Bodie

Newspaper cutting about misrepresentation case against a music hall performer

Newspaper cutting about a misrepresentation case against a music hall performer

Newspaper cutting about a misrepresentation case against a music hall performer

Newspaper cutting about a misrepresentation case against a music hall performer

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall news and business.

Newspaper cuttings about general music hall news and business; notably the illness and death of Mr George Washington Moore.

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

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

Newspaper cutting about a slander case

Two letters to Lucy Moore in response to advertisement seeking husband.
Newspaper cuttings about Panopticon programme in Glasgow News, Forward, Evening Citizen.

Newspaper cuttings advertising Panopticon programme in the Weekly Record and Forward. Classified ads in the Era and the Stage looking for artists. Two envelopes addressed to Miss Lucy Moore.

Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum in the Evening Citizen, Glasgow News, Record and Mail, Evening Times, Glasgow Programme, The Stage, Pollokshaws News, still advertising the Bear Woman.
Also…

Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum from Glasgow News, the Era, Citizen, Evening Times, Record & Mail, Scottish Referee, Forward, Weekly Record. Still presenting the Bear Woman and the bioscope.

Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E Pickard from the Evening Citizen, Daily Record, Weekly Record, Glasgow Programme, Scottish Referee, Evening Times. Also results from Pickard's Limerick competition with a winner and 43 consolation prizes…

Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum from the Weekly Record, Helensburgh News, Scottish Referee, The Stage, Glasgow News, Evening Citizen, Record and Mail, and the Forward. Featuring the 'Bear…

Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum from the Evening Citizen, the Stage, the Era, Evening Times and Pollokshaws News, featuring the 'Bear Woman'. Printed flyer for 'The Irish Giant',

Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's Britannia Panopticon and museum from the Glasgow News, Evening Citizen, Record & Mail, Evening Times

Postcard of women with sewing machines. Not contemporary.

Handwritten note on the back of an envelope, presumably sent for limerick competition:
"Postman, hurry, you lazy old sinner
Move along as tho' running for dinner
This yellow env'lope
Contains let us hope
The "Pickard's Panopticon" winner."

Handwritten index.

Handwritten Index.

Handwritten Index.

Handwritten Index.

Torn newspaper pages found in scrapbook. Different time period, probably 1930s.

Newspaper cuttings about roller skating and skating rinks. Notes on a 'Carnival on skates'.

Newspaper cuttings about roller skating and a photograph of Fred Scott, Allen Mitchell, Mabel Gandy, Oriol Bray, and Charles Day, skating instructors at the American Roller Skating rink, Glasgow.

Photograph of a roller skating fall.

Newspaper cuttings about roller skating and skating rinks. American Roller Skating Rink, Professor HA Simmons (expert skater) appearing.

Newspaper cuttings about roller skating and skating rinks. Cinderella dance at Victoria Road skating rink.

Newspaper cuttings about skating rinks in Glasgow and Birmingham, and article about Charities Day.

Newspaper cuttings about skating rinks. American Roller Skating Rink had put on a 'Barnyard' carnival

Newspaper cuttings about skating rinks.

Newspaper cuttings about skating rinks.

Newspaper cuttings about skating rinks. Glasgow Roller Skating Competition. Management of Victoria Rd American Roller Rink offer a present to the first couple married on skates.

Newspaper cuttings about roller skating and skating rinks.

Newspaper cuttings about roller skating, skating rinks at Glasgow, Rothesay, Crosshill, and skating rink business. Prospectus for the Brixton Skating Rink Ltd.

Newspaper cuttings about Skating rinks, tips for roller skating, case of racially-motivated exclusion from a skating rink in Birmingham, and case of false advertising against a skin cure product.