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Financial Statement for the year engding 31st October
Attendance of Office-Bearers at Lodge Meetings
Advertisment for Pickard's establishments
Justice Cheated and public interest harmed by the sign of the right angle
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, Hamburg).Then, he describes a conversation with a Dane about Glasgow Celtic Football Club, and moves on to discuss the overall industry and culture of Copenhagen. The collection of the National Museum is especially highlighted as one of the finest in Europe. The article also mentions visits outside Copenhagen to Frederiksborg Castle, Elsinore, Kronborg - the setting of Shakespeare's Hamlet. The author then reviews the transport industry, discussing cars, trams and bicycles. The article concludes with a description of Tivoli Garden.
Pickard's Papers Project, catalogued by Sandra Kempele
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.
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.
Travel card for tram No. 23, Hamburg, Germany, departing from Veddel, Hamburg. The ticket also contains itinerary, timetable, serial number and fare - 10 pfennigs.
Travel card for tram No. 2, Hamburg, Germany, departing from Wandsbek, Hamburg. The ticket also contains itinerary, timetable, serial number and fare - 10 pfennigs.
Pair of tram tickets from Hamburg to Altona, fare - 10 pfennigs.
Pair of seat reservations for express train No.15 Hamburg-Altona-Berlin with seat and carriage numbers.
Pair of Zoo admission tickets, fee - 50 pfennigs.
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.
Pair of adult admission tickets for Tierpark Hagenbeck, a zoo in Stellingen, a quarter in Hamburg, Germany. Admission fee - 1 mark.
Pair of admission tickets to Carl C.E.Clausen's Etablissement in Hamburg, Germany
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.
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 zoo in Hamburg, Germany.
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 zoo in Hamburg, Germany.
Pair of admission tickets to Cabaret Unter den Linden, Berlin, Germany. Entrance fee - 2 marks.
Pair of standing tickets to Metropol Theater.
Advertisement for Passage-Kaufhaus, a department store on Friedrich Street, Berlin.
Admission ticket to Berlin Wintergarten Theatre, entrance fee - 1,50 Marks.
Receipt for Hammonia Hotel in Hamburg, St.Pauli, Germany, fee - 10 marks.
Pair of admission tickets to Passage-Panopticum, a theatre and wax museum in Berlin. Valid only for weekday afternoons, entrance fee - 50 pfennigs.
Pair of admission tickets to American entertainment park White City in Berlin.
Pair of admission tickets to Castan's Panopticum, a wax museum and theatre, on Friedrich Street, Berlin. Fee - 20 pfennigs.
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.
Three Berlin tram ticket to Leipziger Platz.
Pair of admission tickets to White City Variete theatre, in Berlin, Germany.
Coupon for admission to M.Schumann Circus Gallery, Germany.
Pair of Hannover tram tickets, fare - 10 pfennigs.
Admission ticket to Nick Kaufmann & Co., Roller Skating in Berlin. Entrance fee - 50 pfennigs.
Bill from Rudolf Dressel restaurant in Berlin, Germany.
Bill from the restaurant on train Altona - Berlin
Pair of seat reservations for express train No.22 Berlin - Cologne with seat and carriage numbers.
Three coupons for admission to M.Schumann Circus Gallery, Germany.
Receipt for Hotel Bauer in Berlin, Germany, issued to Mr Pickard and Mr Robbin. Fee - 19, 50 marks.
Pair of seat reservations for express train No.98 Kiel - Cologne with seat and carriage numbers.
Pair of admission tickets to Palais D'Ete (Summer Palace), France. Entrance fee - 1 franc.
Ticket with a stamp and blue mark on it.
Receipt for Hotel Royal in Hannover, Germany, issued to Mr Pickard. Fee - 13, 50 marks.
Contract victualling coupon for Geo. Gibson & Co.'s Continental Steamer, issued for Mr.Robbins.
Poster advertising Castan's Panoptikum in Cologne, which hosts more than 1000 objects and attractions.
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.
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.
Flyer for the reopening of the Panopticon. Original has section cut off.
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.
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 father, Who skates his time away; Brother he does likewise, So does sister Ann, Everybody skates but mother, Even our old man."
Election flyer for council candidate Moir, in the form of a tram ticket
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, but also that they will continue performing up to day of sale.
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 on the Thursday immediately after the sale. The second page of the catalogue provides a list of the animals being sold, including a wallaby kangaroo from Australia and a female Sambur deer from India. The latter is described as a very fine specimen, indicating the prestige the animal enjoys within The Scottish Zoo collection.
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 operation but also the practices it engaged in for entertainment purposes, some of which are problematic from a contemporary viewpoint. The Boomer Kangaroo on sale, for example, is described as having been trained to box, suggesting that the zoo did not conform to particularly high animal welfare standards.
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 hardy and a source of endless amusement to visitors.
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 statement is substantiated by the claim that the Gin Gin Bird whistles perfectly, “Yankee Doodle,” “Ill Be Your Sweetheart,” and many others”.
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 purchase. Particularly telling of the writers intent is the mathematical sum at the bottom-right of the first page which appears to total the amount of money needed for all purchases. Also present in this item are two photographs of caged animals (possibly lions); presumably pictures of the animals available for 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.
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 article states that Dick was the sixth gorilla to have died after being brought to Regents Park.
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 the clutches of the snake and that ultimately the man emerged from the incident alive but in a terribly exhausted condition.
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 companies. The text at the very bottom of the cartoon comments on the supposedly overheard dialogue between the two newspaper-reading baboons, stating that the discovery of potentially lucrative work for baboons has caused considerable excitement in Simian circles.
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 the alligators were faring well and none [were] sea sick. The article states that that the cargo was comprised of 300 alligators, some up to 18 feet in length.
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 sort of world record (presumably for the oldest parrot to lay an egg) and ends the letter by soliciting the help of the newspapers readers to establish whether it is or not.
Newspaper cutting/Letter to newspaper Editor
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 to be mostly quartzite. The article ends by stating that, while cases of this type are common with crocodiles, this seems to be the first recorded case of their occurrence in an elephant.
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 fish derives its name from its uncanny resemblance to a long rowing oar.
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 laments as perhaps one of the most interesting of all the exhibits in the collection. The article culminates with its writer celebrating the the new monkeys apparent intelligence, referring to it as unquestionably one of the best illustrations of the Darwinian theory ever exhibited in this country.
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 example, the first photograph shows Consul deciding to get out of bed while the fifth shows him lighting the first cigarette of the day.
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, as such, he/she predicts that the new facility will be readily welcomed by skating enthusiasts living in Glasgows West End.
Voice of the People. Both Sides of the Question.
A letter to the Editor of the Glasgow News protesting the plan to sell off the animals comprising The Scottish Zoo. The author suggests that some of the most well-loved animals be relocated to an area named the Rouken Glen which would be converted into a Zoological Garden where visitors could continue to enjoy the attractions offered by the zoo.
Article from the Evening Citizen providing a detailed account of the rejection of a motion, proposed at a meeting of the Glasgow Town Council, to have plans concerning a new Zoological Department to be remitted to the Parks Committee of the Corporation. The tone of the article seems broadly sympathetic to the cause of Councillor Galbraith, the person who proposed the motion, making clear that in no way was he asking the council commit themselves in any way, but merely to consider remitting the matter to the Parks committee for their consideration. The article describes how, after contentious deliberation over whether or not a fee for entry to the proposed attraction would be imposed, the motion was ultimately rejected by 29 votes to 9.
Article from the Evening Times supporting the decision of the Glasgow Town Council to reject the motion that the possibility of a zoological garden be considered and reported upon by the Parks Committee. Although the author states that there would have been no particular harm in passing the motion, he/she questions the appropriateness of such an expensive hobby during a time of implied economic hardship in Glasgow. They also point out that Glasgows climate would not be hospitable for animals in the way that the climates of continental cities which house zoos are. The writer then concludes that theoretically a municipal zoo is an excellent idea, but [owing to the factors outlined] the time is not yet.
Short rhyming poem in two stanzas entitled My Teddy Bear, which seems to be written from a childs perspective about their pet bear. The poem describes how the bear, once wild and free, is now a beloved pet. Though there is no date of the poems publication, due to its inclusion with articles and letters deliberating on a zoo for Glasgow, it would follow that the poem might be designed to highlight the strong affinity children have with animals and what a tragedy it would be if the rejection of a zoological garden in Glasgow deprived of them of such opportunities to enjoy the presence of animals.
Ticket for The Scottish Zoo designed to give the Children of Glasgow a chance to see the attraction before it FINALLY closes. By encouraging specifically the children of the city to see the zoo before its closure, the ticket reinforces the idea that the attraction was seen as a place of great social and educational benefit to Glasgows younger citizens.
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, praising his generosity and his lineage; citing him as one in a distinguished line of entertainment caterers. Conversely, the article attacks the apparently substandard class of councillor at present in the city chambers and the reluctance of the Town Council to enrich Glasgows educational potential; the decision to reject the zoological garden being considered by the Parks Committee being offered as an illustrative example. The writer urges that this decision be reconsidered, stating that great is the shame attaching to our city council if the opportunity be passed over.
Lengthy article written by representative of the University of Glasgows Natural History Department decrying the Town Councils apparently hasty decision to dismiss plans concerning a zoological garden for Glasgow. The writer systematically addresses the concerns of the councillors in opposition to the proposal (Councillor Martin and Councillor Gibson especially), explaining why a zoological garden would be of tremendous benefit to the city as well as a financially feasible endeavour.
Photograph of a young girl in a garden sitting next to two lion cubs. The photograph is accompanied by some text which states that the cubs pictured are part of The Scottish Zoos collection of animals being auctioned on the 27th April, 1909.
Short article alerting readers as to the last day they will be able to visit The Scottish Zoo before it closes. The article describes how, much to the dismay of Glasgows citizens, the Town Council ultimately refused to purchase the animals for a proposed zoological garden. The article culminates with details of some special last-day attractions offered at the zoo, such as free cinematograph entertainment in the afternoon and evening in the Hippodrome.
Under the Hammer - The Last of Glasgows Zoo.
Article from the The Evening Times describing the events which took place at the auction of the animals comprising the Scottish Zoo. According to the author, the excitable atmosphere of the occasion seemed to register with the animals as well as the buyers; the collections snakes, for example exhibited a greater degree of animation than the visitor of the zoo was apt to witness in this section on ordinary occasions. A list of the animal dealers and circus proprietors present at the auction is given, as are many of the prices for which various animals were eventually sold.
Photograph of a zookeeper holding a small alligator. The text which accompanies the photograph asserts that the alligator is one of nine which the zookeeper has been able to train over a period of three months.
A drawing of several distinguished-looking men and women who, according to the drawings caption, represent the types at yesterdays sale (of the Scottish Zoo animals). Printed below the drawing is a charming poem written from the perspective of the zoos many animals. In the poem they express their regret that they will not see each other again after the auction, however, the rhyme culminates with a message of hope from the wallaby Kangaroo who tells the other animals, we shall meet again, I know, In some bright celestial Zoo!.
Collection of five photographs depicting the auction of the animals comprising The Scottish Zoo. The text below the photographs details the gentleman in the third photo from the top as Mr Wallace, the auctioneer, who is seen to be in the process of selling camels and dromedaries to a busy crowd of bidders. According to the text, the animals in the other photographs, including a tiger and an elephant, were sold for the highest prices owing to their status as principal animals within the collection.
A Glasgow Zoo. Promising Movement Begun.
Short article from the Glasgow News alerting readers to the fact that a committee tasked with the planning of a zoological garden in the city is in the process of being formed, with the support of several influential gentleman and strong financial backing. The tone of the article is extremely optimistic, describing the projects realisation as practically assured.
Short article from the Evening Citizen describing the arrival of a rare monkey named the white-nosed saki at the Berlin Zoological Garden. The article describes the physical appearance and attributes of the monkey, while noting that the animal is probably the first living example to reach Germany. An article such as this, which details the happenings of a zoo in as far-removed a country from Scotland as Germany, highlights the level of interest and curiosity which animals held for the people of Glasgow at this time, helping to explain the fervour with which said citizens pursued the goal of their own zoological garden.
St. James Hall Picture Palace Entry Ticket.
Green ticket stub admitting one persons entry upon payment of one penny to the audience area or balcony of St. James Hall Picture Palace on Stirling Road, Glasgow. Ticket states that children under the age of 14 are unable to use this ticket, indicating that another ticket, perhaps of a different colour or design was available for concessions.
Short article detailing the enormous success of each of Pickards cinemas: the Casino, The Panopticon, the Clydebank Gaiety and the Ibrox Picture Palace. In particular, the luxurious interior of the Casino is celebrated, being described asamong the cosiest and most comfortable halls in St.Mungo. The article also mentions Mr Christie Grant, the manager of the Casino, describing his popularity among picture-goers as avery…courteous manager.
Short newspaper cutting from the Observer describing the weekly programme of the Casino. Mentioned are the performances of Will Starr,the chocolate-coloured comedian and dancer and Cissie Norton,the popular male impersonator. Though an appraisal of his talents,the description of the formers skin colour is indicative of the often problematic racial attitudes inherent within journalism of this period.
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 amazing acts of acrobatic prowess which were extremely well received by Casino patrons.
Aeroplane for Glasgow: Mr A.E. Pickards Enterprises.
Short article describing Pickards purchase of a monoplane at auction. Pickard is described as battlingspirited competition from fellow bidders in order to emerge successful during the auction. The article also describes Pickards wish to apply for permission to take his new aircraft on small flights from Glasgow Green.