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Robert Innes Smith Archive
Robert Saunders Papers
Rod Spooner Collection
The collection includes photographs taken by Jack Mellor and includes images of fairground rides, sideshows and traction engines. There are copies of Rod Spooner's photographs of South and Midland Fairs from 1952-1953. Also included is a cassette recording of an interview With Kay Smart and other showmen/women.
Ron Kinder Collection
Slides and photographs of Ron's travels to various preservation events and a few pictures from local Derbyshire fairs, articles, correspondence and Nottingham and Hull fair plans.
Ron Lee Collection
This collection contains black and white and colour photographs of fairgrounds, fairground rides and transport taken by Ron Lee and scrapbooks.
Ron Newbold Collection
Colour and black and white photographs consisting of traction engines, fairgrounds, ride and organs taken by Ron Newbold.
Ron White Collection
Photographs of fairgrounds around Scotland and the north west of England, mainly around Ayrshire from the 1960s onwards and scrapbooks compiled by Ron White containing advertisments for Scottish and north of England fairgrounds and Chipperfield Circus.
Ronald Allen Taylor Collection
The collection contains photographs in twenty two albums taken by Taylor and other photographers, correspondence and a number of catalogues including his Dodgem research material.
Rowland Scott Collection
Photographs related to all aspects of British travelling fairgrounds including; rides, transport, living wagons, showpeople, fairground shows, circuses and organs by Rowland Scott and other authors, a selection of manuscripts by Rowland Scott and a small amount of correspondence.
Royal Commission on the National Health Service Archive
Papers relating to the 1976 Royal Commission on the National Health Service, presented to the University of Sheffield Library by Professor Sir Paul Bramley, a member of the Commission.
For further details of this collection, see the finding aid in the External documents section below.
Royden Harrison Positivism Collection
This collection consists of around 150 volumes relating to the Positivist movement, including works by Auguste Comte, Richard Congreve, and Frederic Harrison, as well as pamphlets and volumes of key journals. It was assembled by the late Professor Royden Harrison.
For a full listing of this collection, see the External Document Section below.
Rudmose Brown Collection
Sanger Circus Collection
Black and white and some colour photographs, negatives, handbills, programmes and other items of ephemera relating George Sanger's circus and the Hall by the Sea.
Sanger Family Collection
This collection contains black and white photographs of George Sanger's Circus, photocopies of newspaper cuttings related to the Sanger Family and original drawings for costume designs by June Dick.
Scrivens and Smith Collection
Colour photographs of fairgrounds, fairground rides and scenes and black and white photographs of Lang Wheels dodgem cars and two artist's impressions of Lang Wheels aerodrome. Also contains cassette recordings of showman John Ling's memories of travelling life.
Seemann Slide Collection
A collection of glass-mounted slides relating to German history, literature, theatre and landscape. Ernest Arthur Seemann was a printer and publisher of art and history books, and these slides likely contain the images that were used in E. A. Seeman's publications.
Selina Dobson Collection
This collection contains photographs, Showmen's Guild membership cards and newspaper cuttings relating to the Dobson family, as well as World War One and World War Two photographs, correspondence, medals and certificates.
Shaun Martin Collection
Digital, colour photographs of fairground rides, fairground art, fairground transport and Ken Fox’s wall of death archived by ride owner
Shaw Manuscripts
A collection of manuscript musical works composed by John William Shaw (1927-2008). The majority of this collection is undated, but dated material ranges from 1973 to 1999.
For further details of this collection please see the finding aid/box list in the External Documents section below.
Sheffield Bach Society Records
Records of the Sheffield Bach Society, 1950-2010.
The collection consists of the records of the Sheffield Bach Society during its first half-century, from its founding in 1950 up to the year 2010.
For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the External Documents section below.