Photographs and Postcards, c1900 - 2000
Scope and Contents
Around 7,000 colour and black and white photographs, contact prints, postcards, slides and negatives. Subjects of photographs include various circus performers such as Lilly Yokoi, Pete Cooper, The Paulos, Family Paulovitch, Jimmy and Luigi Folco, Faltyny Troupe, Alegria Brothers, Glavaski Duo, The Argentine Devils, Mik and Mak, Miss Nives; circus animals; fairground scenes; transport and living wagons; circus infrastructure; putting up and taking down circus infrastructure; other circuses such as the Chinese State Circus, Roncalli, Medrano, Circus Agora, Circus Maximum, Circus Benneweis, Knie, Arlette Gruss, telesnaps; stills from televised broadcasts of Billy Smart's Circus such as on the BBC and This is your Life; Royal visits; celebrity visitors such as Elton John, Bruce Forsyth, Jane Mansfield, Roger Moore, Margaret Rutherford, Peter Sellers; family photographs. Some records in this series contain offensive language.
Dates
- Creation: c1900 - 2000
Creator
- Smart, Billy (William), 1894 - 1966 (Person)
- Billy Smart's Circus (c1946 - 2006) (Organisation)
Conditions Governing Access
Items are available to view by appointment in our reading room
Conditions Governing Use
Copies may be supplied or produced at the discretion of the National Fairground and Circus Archive, subject to copyright law and condition of the material
Extent
35 Box(es)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Catalogued according to type
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 64 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 65 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 66 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 67 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 68 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 69 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 70 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 71 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 72 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 73 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 74 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 75 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 76 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 77 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 78 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 79 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 80 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 81 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 82 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 83 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 84 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 85 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 86 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 87 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 88 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 89 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 90 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 91 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 92 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 93 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 94 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 95 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 96 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 97 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 98 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 99 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 100 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 101 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 102 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: Smart Family Collection Box 103 (Mixed Materials)
Repository Details
Part of the National Fairground and Circus Archive Repository
The University of Sheffield
Western Bank
Sheffield South Yorkshire S10 2TN United Kingdom
0114 222 7231
lib-special@sheffield.ac.uk