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Envelope of Press Cuttings About the Norman Family, c1932 - 1994

 File — Box: Norman Family Box 5
Reference code: 178G22.25

Scope and Contents

A4 envelope of press cuttings: 1) Article about a Wild West show at Kennards Ltd in Croydon, mentioning Cliff Norman and his wife [likely from c1932]; 2) Double page including three photographs, from an unnamed magazine, with an article about Hal and Olga Denver's knife throwing act; pp 19 - 20 and pp 37 - 38, in German; 3) Two torn pages and nine photographs of Hal and Olga Denver, in German; 4) Pages 39 - 42 of an unnamed journal, with pages 40 - 41 being an article about Arthur Van Norman entitled 'The Clown Prince' by Keith Watts, including four pictures; 5) A4 sheet of card with about fifteen newspaper cuttings about the Denvers stuck on in a collage, with 'Newsflash' written in the upper corner; 6) Newspaper cutting of Hal Denver's obituary [date and source unknown, but presumably from 1994]; 7) Undated cutting from an unknown source of an article entitled 'Murder Tonight at the Ostrich' about murder at the Ostrich Inn, Colnbrook; 8) Undated cutting of unknown source entitled 'At Wild West Show,' with a photograph of show personnel in Western costume and the caption 'Shortly after this photograph was taken at Wickham fair on Saturday, the negress on the left was wounded in a knife-throwing display'; 9) Undated cutting from The Independent of the obituary of George Norman by D Nevil [published 25 June 1993]; 10) Newspaper cutting entitled 'Las Vegas Favourites,' with a photograph of the Vagabonds and a caption mentioning the Sensational Denvers; 11) Single-page advertisement for Hope Livestock Show and Rodeo in the United States, with a photograph of the Denvers.

Dates

  • Creation: c1932 - 1994

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

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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

11 Item(s)

Language of Materials

English

German

Arrangement

Catalogued according to type

Physical Description

Two torn pages in item three

Repository Details

Part of the National Fairground and Circus Archive Repository

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