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Essays on Various Topics Research Material, c1900 - 1999

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Reference code: 178B30.22

Scope and Contents

Booklets containing essays on international circus families by Gill Robinson, Circus Lore, a booklet about circus personalities' fortunes left upon death entitled Circus Fortunes, a booklet containing notes, letters and drawings entitled Odds and Ends, 5 booklets with information crossed out, 2 notebooks with notes and sketches, article entitled Well, How Many, The Permanent Circuses of Englad, The Old Time Circus Buildings and Structures of the British Isles, all by Hal Thomas (David Harold Thomas), transcription of clown entree Dead and Alive, Random Notes on the History of Early American Circus by R. W. G. Vail. Manuscript and typescript.

Dates

  • Creation: c1900 - 1999

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Items are available to view by appointment in the NFCA 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

18 Item(s) ; Various sizes

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement

Catalogued according to type

Cultural context

Occupation

Repository Details

Part of the National Fairground and Circus Archive Repository

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