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An advertisement for regular Sunday concerts of Rudolph Pelisek and his trio at Peter's Cafe.

The music for “Let’s All Go To the Franklin” was published in the Ottawa Journal as part of“Franklin Week” in September 1929.

Rudolph Pelisek obituary. Second page missing from microfilm.

A praiseful short biography of Horace Wilson's training and achievements.

An illustrated advertisement for 1918 showings of the controversial 1915 film "The Birth of a Nation" at the Regent Theatre featuring "Original Effects" and a "Big Orchestra."

The interior of the Flower Theatre with a Wulitzer Motion Picture Orchestra organ below the screen. A rare example of a photograph of a theatre’s interior and instrument being featured in an advertisement.

An article announcing a series of dance lessons on screen at the Centre theatre.

The first of three times this image of the Regent Orchestra would be featured in the Ottawa Journal between 1917 and 1918. A rare example of putting cinema musicians front and centre in a newspaper advertisement. Click here to learn more about this…

Early notice of films being shown at the Russell Theatre.

"L'Intransigeant", an opera by Amédée Tremblay and Rémi Tremblay, played at Le Monument National in June 1906. This may have been the premier.