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Title: Adshead's handy guide to Glasgow : with map, views, tramway routes and fares and other useful information
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Publisher: Glasgow : N. Adshead
Contributing Library: University of Guelph Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Scottish Studies Foundation (Canada)

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d comfortable house. At corner ofDunlop Street is the Union Hotel opposite which is the BucksHead Buildings. Opposite Dunlop Street, on the left, is MillerStreet. On the left hand side of this street is the MitchellFree Library, located in a very commodious building. Onthe ground floor is the public reading room, and on the floorabove is the magazine room, ladies reading room, and studentsroom. The library contains close on 140,000 volumes, andwas founded from a bequest by Stephen Mitchell, who died in1874. On the opposite side of the street, a little furthernorth, is the Stirling Library (40,000 volumes) and theBaillie Institute (10,000). Proceeding along Argyle Street, we next come to VirginiaStreet, the name of which recalls the old tobacco trade. Thehead offices of the ill-fated City of Glasgow Bank stood inVirginia Street. Its doors were closed on 2nd October, 1878,and the public learned the startling fact that its deficiencyamounted to over .£6,000,000. A little further east is
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