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Enquirer Printing Company Collection
This collection of printed material produced by the Enquirer Job Printing Company contains American sideshow and freak show posters mainly from the Ripley’s ‘Believe it or Not’ franchise and a poster sampler that was taken around by salesmen from the company.
Family La Bonche Project Collection
Posters, a book, a postcard, project newspaper and 3 promotional handbills.
Geoff Stevens Collection
Collection of circus books, journals and films.
George Dawson Collection
The collection contains numerous photographs, newspaper cuttings relating to traction engines and 40 rally programmes.
George McIndoe Collection
Photographs, slides, newspaper cuttings related to the Biddall family and photographs of Kirkaldy Fair created for a documentary on Scottish fairs.
George Williams Collection
Collection of early films related to the first year of film-making in America and the United Kingdom and nineteenth century magic lantern slides, letter, film catalogues and photographic plates.
Gerry Cottle Collection
This collection contains material from Gerry Cottle’s personal collection and has examples of flyers, programmes, vouchers and posters from Cottle and Austen, Circus of Horrors and Cottle’s Circus
Hal Fisher Collection
The collection comprises Hal Fisher’s extensive research on Blackpool Tower Circus including an index of performers and a variety of research materials. The collection also contains photo albums and programmes taken from his work and travels.
Hamilton Kaye Collection
Programmes, handbills, photographs and a digital copy of Hamilton Kaye's notebook which contained jokes and stories that he kept for using in his act.
Handby Celeine Collection
Posters, photographs, programmes, 1 piece of sheet music for six instruments and a small amount of business records and correspondence relating to the dancing and burlesque comedy on skates.
Harder Jonsson Collection
Photographs related to Harder Jonsson and his work at circuses such as the Riskett, Chipperfields and Jeserich Circus as an animal trainer, also some family photographs.
Harry Paulo Family Collection
This collection contains black and white photographs, postcards and negatives, newspaper cuttings, scrapbooks, posters, programmes, books and other miscellaneous items related to the Paulo Circus family. Other circuses and performers are also represented.
Hodson Family Collection
Photographs, newspaper cuttings, programmes, memoirs and other items relating to the Hodson family travelling theatre. Also includes family history research material.
Joe Hives Collection
Black and white photographs of fairground rides, transport, sideshows, boxing booths and showmen and women.
Joe Stumcke Collection
This collection contains scrapbooks, programmes, photographs of performers at the Kursaal, Bertram Mills Circus and sideshows as well as some business records related to the Stumcke family and their work at the Kursaal and Bertram Mills Circus.
John Anderson Collection
Colour and black and white born digital photographs of Zippos Circus taken by John Anderson in Endcliffe Park, Sheffield
John Bramwell Taylor Collection
John F. C. Heather Collection
Black and white photographs related to Joseph Charles Heather, the Sanger Circus and the Bostock Jungle.
John Martin Turner's Circus Research Collection
This collection contains John Turner’s research on circus people indexes, which lists circus performers from the Victorian age onwards. It contains notebooks, index cards, photocopies and pictures gathered from a number of repositories and libraries during John Turner’s life and used for articles published in a variety of journals and magazines, and for the numerous books that he published during his lifetime. The collection also contains some posters and programmes
Lionel Bathe Collection
Colour and black and white negatives containing fairground and circus images and accompanying index notebooks.