Magic
Found in 269 Collections and/or Records:
Bill Barnes Collection
Programmes, posters and photographs mainly related to the Poole family's travelling Myriorama show.
Billy Lawrence Business Card, c1950 - 1965
Business card for magician Billy Lawrence, late twentieth century.
Billy Russell’s Circus Spectacular Programme, 1977
The Two Bohumils jugglers, The Robert Brothers Camel Caravan, elephants and ponies, Skippy the Boxing Kangaroo, Blanini aerialist, Jacko Fossett and Little Billy clowns, Markus and Rosita strongman, The Valla Bertini Troupe trick cyclist, The Wychwoods magic and dog act, Chyfudey contortion, acrobatic and balancing act, The Bjoerlings equestrian act, Bobby Dixon comedy acrobat, The Tanger troupe tumblers. Contains illustration with photos, 24p.p.
Blackpool Bookshop Advert for Book List, c1950 - 1959
Advertisement for book list from Blackpool bookshop for Recipe for A Good Magician by Professor Lipka book.
Blackpool Magicians Club Programme, c1900 - 1999
Presents All Our Yesterdays. 21st Annual One Day Convention, 4p.p.
Blackpool Tower Circus International Summer Season Programme, 1957
Charlie Cairoli, Clown, Excess Baggage, Performing dogs, Krone’s Arabian Horses, Polar Bears and Shetland Ponies, The Flying Marileesm Aerial Texans, The Five Cristianis, Acrobats, Frances Duncan, Aerialist, Nino Rubio, Balancing act, The Yokoi Troupe, Cycling act, The Golden Linders, Water Fantasy, The Bedini Troupe, Tumblers, The Aerial Chapmans, Revolving ladder thrills, 12pp.
Blackpool Tower Circus International Summer Season Programme, 1960
Charlie Cairoli, Clown, Benneweis’ Mixed group presented by Gerd Siemoneit, Animal act, The Myrons, Balancing act, Bob Gerry troupe, High Wire Walkers, Knie’s Elephants, chimpanzees and Arabian horses presented by Sacha Houcke, Dudi Smith and Rupert Bemmerl, The Five Amandis, Tumblers, The Balcombes, Fun on a ladder, The 3 Houcs, Jugglers, King Kong, Schaller Brothers, Clowns, Fattini, Clown acrobat, The Therons, Cycling stars, 12pp.
Blackstone Programme, c1940 - 1949
Blackstone’s Secrets of Magic Tour, 16p.p.
Booklet, May 1904
Great Paper & String Tricks. Booklet Number 12 in a series. Contains illustrations, 16p.p.
Business Records, 1902 - 1903, 12 December 1932
Various items of business related to the Testo family.
Carl de Rome Illusionist Poster, c1990 - 1999
Black and white photographs of the act. Left blank for overprinting location and date.
Carl de Rome International Illusionist Poster, c2000 - 2010
Colour photographs of the act. Left blank for overprinting location and date.
Charles Taylor Collection
The Charles Taylor collection is a fine example of Taylor’s of Wombwell printers’ posters, which highlight changes in printing techniques, fashion and taste within the popular entertainment industry. Included are examples of posters for pantomimes, fairs and circuses. The collection also contains handbills and other advertising material.
Christmas Greetings from Mark and Joan Raffles, c2000 - 2008
Christmas card from Mark and Joan Raffles to Cryril and Shirley Critchlow. Illustration of Tivoli theatre bill from 1945 on the front with details of the acts described inside the card.
Christmas Greetings from Milton Woodward, c1930 - 1999
Christmas card from Milton Woodward and Millicent Copper.
Christopher in his Magical Musical Revue Christopher’s Wonders Handbill, Monday 11 September c1950
New Theatre Cardiff. 50 Fabulous Feats. Printed by Electric (Modern) Printing Co. Ltd., Manchester 8.
Christopher Palmer Collection
Circus programmes and VHS tapes from Billy Smart’s Circus and Chipperfields’s Circus collected during the 1970s and early 1980s by the TV producer, Christopher John Palmer. There are also a number of promotional photographs of artistes and other ephemera related to the circus.
Cigarette Cards, c1970
Three sets of of twenty five cigarette cards showing magic trick, produced by Edward Sharp & Sons, three sets. Contains colour photographs.
Cinderella at Montgomery Hall, Sheffield, Programme, 5 March 1949
The Harrison School of Stage Dancing, including Hamilton Kaye as Baron Carefree, 4pp.
Circus Acts Notebooks Research Material, c1900 - 1999
Notebooks describing circus acts, include diagrams and drawings of routines on acrobatic, equestrian, animal, high wire, horizontal bars, juggling, trapeze, clowning, aerial acts, Illusionists in the circus ring and others by Hal Thomas (David Harold Thomas). Manuscript.