Handwritten letter and envelope addressed to A.E. Pickard.
Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 8
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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.
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Newspaper cuttings about general music hall news and business; notably the death of Mr George Adney Payne.
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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.
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Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news and business; notably a dispute between Moss Empires Ltd and music hall performer Marie Lloyd.
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Newspaper cutting about the death of Mr George Adney Payne and the controversy of living statue exhibitions.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Newspaper cutting with sketch about small tenements on Pollockshaws Road – the remainder of the village of Strathbungo.
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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
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Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news and business; notably an article about an oriental magic performance in London.
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Newspaper cutting and sketch about changes to the Eglington area of Glasgow.
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Newspaper cuttings about general music hall news and business.
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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.
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Newspaper cutting with sketch about a painting of Glasgow Green.
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Newspaper cutting with sketch about the Townhead district library, Glasgow.
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Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news; notably the hatching of conjoined ducklings and a palmistry fraud case.
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Newspaper cuttings about general entertainment news; notably an Italian boy whose pupils are surrounded by the 12 hours of the clock.
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Handwritten letter and White Star Line ticket.
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Newspaper cuttings about general music hall, entertainment, and current news; notably an advert for A.E. Pickard exhibit Tom Thumb.
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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.
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Newspaper cuttings about general music hall news.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Newspaper cuttings with sketches about the Provand Lordships old Glasgow Exhibition.
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Newspaper cuttings about general music hall and entertainment news and business; notably a poster of
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Pickard's Papers: Theatre, Freaks and Automats Vol 1 No 87
BP14.01 Inside front cover Scrapbook page
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BP14.01 Inside back cover Scrapbook page
Newspaper cutting with sketch about an old Glasgow tavern – the Peargrove Tavern.
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