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Fonds
Reference code: SLI 22
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A collection of just under 2,500 lantern slides collected by Arthur Edgar Beet, an academic in the Applied Science Department at the University of Sheffield in the first half of the 20th century.The collection covers a wide variety of subjects, including photographs of late 19th century Sheffield, illustrations of scenes from children’s tales and Bible stories, images of the Boer War and the First World War, portraits of important historical figures, and photographs of London and...
Dates:
Late 19th and early 20th century
Collection
Reference code: NFA0106
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This collection contains 16 posters, 2 handbills, 2 programmes and a small amount of business records, trade material and correspondence relating to Ben Jackson's banjo variety act.
Dates:
c1903 - 1923
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0084
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Photographs and scrapbooks compiled by Bernard Fielding. Each scrapbook contains a mixture of press cuttings including Fairground Mercury and World’s Fair, photographs, postcards, Paul Braithwaite history and patent material. Augmented by handwritten notes and research from other enthusiasts.
Dates:
c1990 - 1999
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0178
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Slides of black popular entertainment performers, part of Professor Lindfors research for Early Black Enteratinments Abroad: From the Hottentot Venus to Africa's First Olympians book.
Dates:
c1800 - 1899
Fonds
Reference code: 149
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A collection of research papers relating left wing drama and theatre in Sheffield and elsewhere in the late 1930s, gathered by Betty Hunt when researching for a PhD in the School of English at the University of Sheffield in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
For further details of the Betty Hunt Papers please see the box list in the External Documents section below.
Dates:
1930s - 1981
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0172
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Programmes, posters and photographs mainly related to the Poole family's travelling Myriorama show.
Dates:
1881 - 2017
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0050
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Colour and black and white photographs mainly taken by Bill Garbett of fairgrounds, fairground rides, fairground organs and transport owned by Pat Collins Fun Fair, Carters Steam Fair and the showman Alfred Stevens.
Dates:
1937 - 1994
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0002
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This collection contains photographs of fairgrounds and steam engines, journal articles, newspaper cuttings, correspondence and books on railways, engineering, fairgrounds and other related topics.
Dates:
c1920 - 2000
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0038
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Photographs, handbills, newspaper reports and financial records relating to Billy Bellhouse and his life as a wall of death rider as well as other performers.
Dates:
1914 - 1960; 2016
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0104
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This Collection contains Black and white photographs of fairground rides and people associated to the rides around Stirling.
Dates:
c1900 - 1959
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0102
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Collection of material related to Billy Wood travelling boxing booth, containing business records, photographs, correspondence, programmes, posters and other items of ephemera.
Dates:
c1900 - 1979
Fonds
Reference code: 332
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A collection of 102 technical drawings made by Norman Arthur Birks (1892-1989) while he was an engineering student at Bradford Technical College and at the University of Sheffield between 1908 and 1914. Also includes 32 scholarship certificates, examination certificates and reports relating to Norman Birks’ technical education between 1908 and 1914 both at the University of Sheffield and Bradford Technical College, and 3 photographs featuring N.A. Birks dating from c.1912 to 1914....
Dates:
c1908 - 1914
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0055
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This collection contains a small amount of archival items and artefacts which belonged to Birt Acres and his son Sidney Birt Acres. The collection also includes books on early cinema, which were used as research material by Alan Acres, while writing ‘Frontiersman to Film-Maker’, and represent the archive created in the process.
Dates:
c1870 - 2005
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0169
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Black and white photographs of fairground people by Bob Chase, produced for his final university year project, also includes contact prints, negatives and notes.
Dates:
1977 - 1978
Fonds
Reference code: 318
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A collection of both manuscript and printed works by John and Emery Bonett, the literary pseudonyms of John Hubert Arthur Coulson (1906-1989) and his wife, Felicity Winifred Carter Coulson (1906-1995), during the period 1936 to 1984 (where dated).It consists of a range of both published and unpublished material, including novels, short stories, plays and television and film scripts, written by John and Emery Bonett, both together and individually.For further details...
Dates:
c1936 - 1984
Fonds
Reference code: PE 29
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A collection of 43 wall charts illustrating botanical subjects, mostly created in the late 19th century.The majority of the wall charts are from the Dodel-Port Atlas, whose images were drawn and collated by Arnold and Carolina Dodel, Swiss botanists who began this work in 1878. Others are from the series Botanische Wandtafeln which was published by the Paul Parey Zeitschriftenverlag in Berlin in the 1870s.For further details of this collection please see the finding...
Dates:
Late 19th century
Fonds
Reference code: CD 7
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Collection consisting of recordings of interviews, plays, poetry and other works relating to Japan, made by Professor Geoffrey Bownas between 1958 and 1980. They include interviews with Kishida Kyoko, Abe Kōbō and Nakamura Utaemon about the Japanese author Mishima Yukio, Bownas’s translation of Naoya Uchimura’s play Marathon, and Japanese poetry. Some were broadcast on the BBC in the late 1950s and early 1960s.For further details of this collection please see the box list in the...
Dates:
1958 - 1980
Fonds
Reference code: 248
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The collection consists of documents relating to the Great Strike of 1984-1985, collected by Andre and Phyllis Bradley. It includes newspaper cuttings, posters, pamphlets, photographs and correspondence, as well as working papers from specific mines, minutes, leaflets and conference reports. The majority of the documents date from the 1970s to the 1990s but there are some older documents from the nineteenth century. For further details of this collection please see the finding...
Dates:
1865 - 1995
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0171
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Colour portrait photographs of people on thrill fairground rides by Brendan Walker.
Dates:
2004 - 2005
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0061
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An audio cassette recording of a conversation between Maggie Bird (formerly Mrs. Margaret Waddington and nee Shufflebottom) and Brian Steptoe on 15th June, 1993 at Bramerton, Norfolk. There is a ten page transcript to accompany the recording.
Dates:
1993
