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Newspaper cuttings from The Leader about the programme of the Clydebank Gaiety Theatre opening night.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of the Clydebank Gaiety Theatre and other A.E. Pickard's entertainment places.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of the Clydebank Gaiety Theatre.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of the Clydebank Gaiety Theatre.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of the Clydebank Gaiety Theatre and other A.E. Pickard's entertainment places.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of the Clydebank Gaiety Theatre.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of the Clydebank Gaiety Theatre.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of the Clydebank Gaiety Theatre and other A.E. Pickard's entertainment places.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of the Clydebank Gaiety Theatre and other A.E. Pickard's entertainment places.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of the Clydebank Gaiety Theatre.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of the Clydebank Gaiety Theatre and other A.E. Pickard's entertainment places.

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Newspaper cuttings from The Press about the programme of the Clydebank Gaiety Theatre.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of the Clydebank Gaiety Theatre and other A.E. Pickard's entertainment places.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of the Clydebank Gaiety Theatre and other A.E. Pickard's entertainment places.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's entertainment places.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickard's entertainment places.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of the Clydebank Gaiety Theatre and other A.E. Pickard's entertainment places.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of the Clydebank Gaiety Theatre and other A.E. Pickard's entertainment places.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of the Clydebank Gaiety Theatre and other A.E. Pickard's entertainment places.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of the Clydebank Gaiety Theatre and other A.E. Pickard's entertainment places.

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Newspaper cuttings about boxing, and the programme of the Clydebank Gaiety Theatre and other A.E. Pickard's entertainment places.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of the Clydebank Gaiety Theatre and other A.E. Pickard's entertainment places. Also a notice of A.E. Pickard's change of address.

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Newspaper cuttings from The Leader about the programme and licence of the Clydebank Gaiety Theatre.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of the Clydebank Gaiety Theatre.

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Newspaper cuttings from The Press about the programme of the Clydebank Gaiety Theatre.

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Newspaper cuttings from The Press - articles and adverts about the opening of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Evening Times, Daily Record and Mail, Glasgow News, and The Press about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Glasgow News, Daily Record and Mail, Evening Times, and The Press about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Glasgow News, Daily Record and Mail, Evening Times, and The Press about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace, Britannia Panopticon, Clydebank Theatre, the Casino, Partick Star Palace and the Coronation Picture…

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Newspaper cuttings from the Evening Times, Daily Record and Mail, Glasgow News, and The Press about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Glasgow News, Daily Record and Mail, Evening Times, and The Press about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Evening Times, Daily Record and Mail, Glasgow News, and The Press about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace during the Christmas season.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Evening Times, Glasgow News, and The Press about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace during the Christmas season.

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Newspaper cuttings from The Press and Evening Times about the Ibrox Picture Palace Christmas/new year programme including an article about an outing for Summertown school children to the venue with free entertainment courtesy of A.E Pickard.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Evening Times, Daily Record and Mail, Glasgow News, and The Press about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace, Britannia Panopticon, Clydebank Theatre, and Glasgow Casino; plus an article about A.E Pickard’s…

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Newspaper cuttings from The Press and Evening Times about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from The Press, Glasgow News, Evening Times, Daily Record and Mail, and Evening Citizen about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Evening Times, Daily Record and Mail, Glasgow News, and The Press about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace, Britannia Panopticon, Clydebank Theatre, and Glasgow Casino.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Evening Times, Evening Citizen, Glasgow News, The Press, and Daily Record and Mail about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace, Britannia Panopticon, and Clydebank Theatre.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Evening Citizen, Evening Times, and The Press about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Evening Times, Glasgow News, and The Press about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Evening Times, Evening Citizen, Daily Record and Mail, Glasgow News, The Press, and Glasgow Observer about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Glasgow News, Evening Citizen, Evening Times, and The Press about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace; plus an article about a Waverly FC benefit.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Glasgow News, Evening Citizen, Evening Times, and The Press about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Evening Times, Glasgow News and The Press about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace; plus a small article about A.E Pickard’s move to Govan in Glasgow.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Glasgow News, Evening Times, and The Press about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Glasgow News, Evening Citizen, Evening Times, and The Press about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Evening Times, Glasgow News, The Press, and Evening Citizen about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Glasgow News, Evening Citizen, Evening Times, and The Press about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Glasgow News, Evening Times, and The Press about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Evening Times, Glasgow News, and The Press about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from The Press, Evening Times, and Glasgow News about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from The Press, Glasgow News, and Evening Times, about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from The Press, Glasgow News, and Evening Times about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace; plus an article about brokers, billiard room and picture house licences.

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Newspaper cuttings from The Press, Evening Times, and Glasgow News about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from The Press and Evening Times about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace, and a fire in Glasgow’s Trongate.

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Newspaper cuttings from The Press, Evening Times and Glasgow News about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from The Press, Evening Times, and Glasgow News about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace, and A.E. Pickard’s purchase of a monoplane.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Evening Times, Daily Record and Mail, Glasgow News, and The Press about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from The Press, Glasgow News, and Evening Times about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace and A.E. Pickard’s monoplane.

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Newspaper cuttings from The Press, Glasgow News, and Evening Times about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Evening Times, The Press, and Glasgow News about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from The Press, Evening Times, and Glasgow News about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from The Press, Evening Times, and Glasgow News about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Evening Times, Glasgow News, and The Press about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from The Press, Evening Times, and Glasgow News about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace. Also present articles about Glasgow shipyard workers and a slander case against A.E. Pickard.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Evening Times, Glasgow News, and The Press about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace, and the attendance of children in music halls.

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Newspaper cuttings from The Press, Evening Times, and Glasgow News about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from The Press, Glasgow News, and Evening Times about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace. Also present articles about an exhibit in A.E. Pickard’s museum, his holiday plans, and the Britannia Panopticon.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Evening Times, Daily Record and Mail, Glasgow News, and The Press about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from The Press about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Glasgow News and Evening Times about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from The Press and Glasgow News about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from The Press, Evening Times, and Glasgow News about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Glasgow News and Evening Times about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from The Press about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Freemasonry paperwork.

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Freemasonry meeting paperwork.

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Freemasonry report.

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Freemasonry report.

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Freemasonry report.

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Freemasonry report.

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Freemasonry meeting paperwork.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Evening Times, Daily Record and Mail, Glasgow News, and The Press about the programme Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cutting from the Evening Citizen about the Hearts of Oak Society; plus freemasonry invitations.

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Freemasonry paperwork.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Sunday Chronicle, Evening Times, and Glasgow News about Freemasonry, and the programmes of the Ibrox Picture Palace, Britannia Panopticon, Clydebank Theatre, the Casino, and Pickard

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Newspaper cuttings from the Glasgow News and Evening Times about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace, the plans for the Seamore Picture House, and A.E. Pickard

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Newspaper cuttings from the Evening Times and Glasgow News about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace, Britannia Panopticon, the Casino, Clydebank Theatre, and Pickard's museum.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Glasgow News, Daily Record and Mail, Evening Times, and The Press about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Evening Times, Daily Record and Mail, Glasgow News, and The Press about programmes at the Ibrox Picture Palace, The Zoo Picture House, The Coronation Picture Palace, The Clydebank Theatre, and the Partick Star Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Evening Times, Daily Record and Mail, Glasgow News, and The Press about the programme of the Ibrox Picture Palace.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Evening Times and Glasgow News about A.E. Pickard

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Newspaper cuttings from the Evening Times and Glasgow News about A.E. Pickard

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Newspaper cuttings from the Evening Times and Glasgow News about A.E. Pickard’s 40th birthday celebrations, his purchase of a monoplane, and the programme of Pickard’s music halls/cinemas and museum.

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Newspaper cuttings from the Evening Times and Glasgow News about A.E. Pickard

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Newspaper cuttings about A.E. Pickard and his music halls and museum.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls and museum.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E Pickardメs music halls and museum.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E Pickardメs music halls and museum.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls and museum; plus an article about the theft of chocolate from an automatic machine.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls and museum.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls and museum.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls and museum.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls and museum.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls and museum.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls and museum.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls and museum.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls and museum; plus an article about the sale of the Ibrox Picture Palace contents.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls and museum.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls and museum; plus an advert for the sale/lease of the Clydebank Gaiety Theatre.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls and museum; plus Moss Empires Ltd.メs 3rd annual amateur carnival.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls and museum; plus Moss Empires Ltd.メs 3rd annual amateur carnival.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls and museum; plus an article about Ibrox Picture Palace manager W. Sowerby and his experience on HMS Majestic.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls and museum; plus an article about a parking offence outside a picture house.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls and museum, a short story about a war veteran and the Britannia Panopticon; plus an article about a fire at the Cambridge Circus Cinema.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls and museum.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls and museum.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls and museum.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls and museum.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls and museum; plus an advert for an open competition at the Princes Theatre, Liverpool.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls and museum.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls and museum.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls and museum, the death of showman George Green, and fundraising for the Red Cross.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls and museum, applications to open theatres on Sunday evenings, and a giant lobster caught at Treshnish Isles.

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Newspaper cuttings about A.E. Pickardメs music halls and museum.

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Newspaper cuttings about A.E. Pickardメs music halls and museum.

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Newspaper cuttings both advertising and about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls and museum.

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Newspaper cuttings both advertising and about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls and museum.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music Halls; plus a sketch about cinema culture.

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Britannia Panopticon programme.

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Britannia Panopticon programme.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls and museum.

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Newspaper cuttings about A.E. Pickardメs music halls and his separation from wife Caroline Pauline Pickard.

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Newspaper cuttings advertising A.E. Pickardメs music halls.

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Newspaper cuttings both advertising and about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls and museum.

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Newspaper cuttings about travelling medicine salesmen.

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls and museum; plus an article about a fire at the Paisley Hippodrome.

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Newspaper cuttings about a fire at the Paisley Hippodrome and an article about a cinema operator being called up for military service.

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Newspaper cuttings both advertising and about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls; plus an article about the Savoy Theatre.

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Newspaper cuttings both advertising and about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls; plus an article about a tramcar theft.

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Newspaper cuttings both advertising and about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls; plus an article about amusement tax.

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Newspaper cuttings both advertising and about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls.

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Newspaper cuttings both advertising and about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls.

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Newspaper cuttings both advertising and about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls.

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Newspaper cuttings about the first person in the UK to pay amusement tax; the person was a teenage boy given a ᆪ1 note gift from A.E. Pickard after he bought tickets to Pickardメs museum.

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Newspaper cuttings about the first person in the UK to pay amusement tax; the person was a teenage boy given a ᆪ1 note gift from A.E. Pickard after he bought tickets to Pickardメs museum. Also articles advertising for music hall acts and about Guy E.…

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Newspaper cuttings both advertising and about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls; plus an article about the drowning of Mary Ann Richardson.

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Newspaper cuttings both advertising and about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls. Also articles advertising for music hall acts and about T. M. Paul ヨ an employee of A.E. Pickard.

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Newspaper cuttings both advertising and about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls. Also articles advertising for music hall acts and a Britannia Panopticon programme.

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Britannia Panopticon programme.

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Page from The Kinematograph and Lantern Weekly

Page from The Kinematograph and Lantern Weekly

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Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardメs music halls; plus a torn page from The Norwood cinemaメs financial records.

Back of previous image of scrapbook loose contents.

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Panopticon staff Becca and Meredith visit the Photographic Unit in Glasgow University Library

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

Short, amusing article from the Evening News describing the excitement and alarm generated when a bull escaped from a transport float and entered the La Scala Picture-house. The article details the bulls dramatic adventure from its escape to its…

Short newspaper clipping from the Glasgow News detailing a list of performances taking place at the Casino. Most notable is the mention of aspecialty act by performer Max Merlin entitledThe Human Crocodile. The performance is described as showcasing…

Newspaper cutting describing the weekly programme of the Casino cinema. Most notable is the mention of a performer named Mile Romany, alady handcuff manipulator whose act might nowadays be termedescape artist. The article describes the astonishment…

Short description of the weekly programme at Pickards Casino cinema, referencing a three-part film entitledThe Clue of the Broken Finger as thechief attraction of the picture houses entertainment that week.

Short article describing the weekly programme of Pickards Casino cinema. The main attraction is detailed as a film entitledThe Tragedy in the Life of General Villa, an epic said to containmany vivid battle scenes and whose production involved the use…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Short article describing the sale, for £5150, of the Springbank U.F. Church on Maryhill Road, Glasgow, to an unnamed cinema theatre company who planned to build a cinema on the site. The journalist intimates that the Burnbank U.F. Church…

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…

Ticket admitting entry to the School Childrens Matinee performance at the Dennistoun Picture Palladium on Hillfoot Street, Glasgow. The ticket states that matinee performances would take place every Saturday at 3pm, with doors opening at 2.30pm.

Advertisment for the Ibrox Picture Palace Performances

Advertisment for the Ibrox Picture Palace Performances

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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.

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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…

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,…

Picture with a short description about the fire. Origin of fire: Gaumont Co

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Photographs of unusually tall people

Article detailing the criticisms levelled at Moss Empires, Ltd. during the annual shareholders meeting. Among the complaints was a perceived decline in quality of the companys entertainment venues, the success of which, according to the shareholders,…

Article taken from the Edinburgh Magazine concerning Glasgows opportunity to purchase the animals being sold by Mr. E. H. Bostock from his Scottish Zoo and form a zoological garden to showcase them. The article is very complimentary of Bostock,…

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…

Ticket stub admitting to the stalls area of Greens Round Toll Picturedrome on Possil Road, Glasgow. Most interesting here is the disclaimer found near the bottom of the ticket, which reads:As a means of excluding undesirable persons from the use of…

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Advert for the 'Half Lady' appearing at Pickard's Museum.

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Advert for Pickard’s Hogmanay attractions in 1908 claiming 23565 visitors to the Panopticon on New Year's Day.

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Newspaper advertisement for Pickard's show featuring Serbian refugees during First World War

Article from the Evening Times describing the evidence Mr. Pickard gave in court relating to the theft of one of his personal safes, containing around £7000 and a first edition of Robert Burns. At the time of the court case Pickard was 87 years old…

Review of Ibrox Picture Palace performances

Review of Ibrox Picture Palace performances

Advertisment for the Ibrox Picture Palace Performances

Review of Ibrox Picture Palace performances

Advertisment for the Ibrox Picture Palace Performances

Advertisment for the Ibrox Picture Palace Performances
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