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Grand Victorian Fete Handbill, 1 May 1851

 Item — Box: John Barmwell Taylor Box 3
Reference code: 178T1.299
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Borini’s Bands of 100 Performers, Tableaux Vivants, The Balloon Ascent by the Celebrated Hampton, and Great Exhibition of Pyrotechniques, at Cremorne House, Chelsea. Only a shilling, balloon included. Printed by John K. Chapman and Company, 5 Shoe Lane and Peterborough Ct., Fleet Street.

Dates: 1 May 1851

Baronet Handbill, 1 April 1814

 Item — Box: John Barmwell Taylor Box 3
Reference code: 178T1.300
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Sir John Dinely at Argyll Rooms, London. ‘A Lecture on his wonderful Marriage-Offer Wherein he will endeavour to prove that, generally, Women excel the Men in Understanding'.

Dates: 1 April 1814

General Tom Thumb Handbill, 21 -23 July 1846

 Item — Box: John Barmwell Taylor Box 3
Reference code: 178T1.301
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Assembly Rooms Low Pavement, London. illustrated print with details added. Printed by Webb and Co., Litho., 8 Farringdon Street.

Dates: 21 -23 July 1846

John Woolcott Handbill, 10 March 1843

 Item — Box: John Barmwell Taylor Box 3
Reference code: 178T1.302
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The Muswell Hill Slasher exhibiting his far-famed dog Black Pinch at George’s Rooms, Westerham. Two dozen rats are let loose where John Woolcott’s dog will catch them.

Dates: 10 March 1843

Great Christmas Fete Handbill, 1874 - 1875

 Item — Box: John Barmwell Taylor Box 3
Reference code: 178T1.303
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Games, attractions, bazaars and sideshows at Royal Agricultural Hall, ‘the greatest combination of exhibitions ever brought together under one roof’, 4pp. Printed by G. Tarrant & Co., 70 Liverpool Road, Islington, N.

Dates: 1874 - 1875

Sanger’s Grand Circus Handbill, c1880

 Item — Box: John Barmwell Taylor Box 3
Reference code: 178T1.304
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National Amphitheatre, Westminster Bridge Road, London, ‘To Conclude with the Fifth Act of Richard III and the great Battle of Bosworth Field and the death of White Surrey’, 4pp.

Dates: c1880

Pictures by Murillo Handbill, c1880 - 1899

 Item — Box: John Barmwell Taylor Box 3
Reference code: 178T1.305
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28 Old Bond Street, London, ‘Comprising the Gallery Slave, the Negro Boy‘ among others. 4pp. Printed by W. Smith, King Street, Long Acre.

Dates: c1880 - 1899

Dioastrodoxon Handbill, 14 - 17 March 1821

 Item — Box: John Barmwell Taylor Box 3
Reference code: 178T1.306
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Mr Lloyd opening the Dioastrodoxon, Grand Transparent Orrery at Theatre of Astronomy, late the Minor Theatre, Catherine Street, Strand, London. Five scenes of the universe closing with the northern and southern celestial heavens. Printed by Glendinning, 25 Hatton Garden, London.

Dates: 14 - 17 March 1821

Greatest Living Phenomenas of Nature Handbill, c1847

 Item — Box: John Barmwell Taylor Box 3
Reference code: 178T1.307
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Gigantic fat girl, Miss Holmes - two dwarf sisters, Miss Emma Patten, the Dorsetshire dwarf and her sister, Ellen Patten - great golden boa constictor, real Crocodiles, and strangling serpents. Private exhibitions can be arranged. Printed by J. Trives and Son, Portsea.

Dates: c1847

Bonassus Handbill, 1821

 Item — Box: John Barmwell Taylor Box 3
Reference code: 178T1.308
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Newly discovered animal The Bonassus, at 287 Stand, London. ‘From the Apalachian mountains of America, is nearly seventeen Months old and Five Feet ten Inches high.’ A bison. Printed by Hewitt, No. 1 Prince’s Street, Drury Lane.

Dates: 1821