Music-halls
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Bill Barnes Collection
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0172
Scope and Contents
Programmes, posters and photographs mainly related to the Poole family's travelling Myriorama show.
Dates:
1881 - 2017
Found in:
National Fairground and Circus Archive
Exhibition and Entertainments Handbills, c1790 - 1939
Sub-Series — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 2: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1.236-342
Scope and Contents
Handbills for travelling shows, fairs, exhibitions and performances at a wide range of venues.
Dates:
c1790 - 1939
Handbills, c1786 - 1968
Series — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 1: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1
Scope and Contents
Handbills for travelling shows, fairs, exhibitions and performances in London.
Dates:
c1786 - 1968
John Bramwell Taylor Collection
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0086
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of handbills, programmes and small flyers for shows, fairs, expositions and circus performances in the nineteenth century. The circus material in the Bramwell Taylor Collection was sponsored by the Circus Friends Association of Great Britain and consists of material relating to 19th century touring circuses, individual acts and purpose built hippodromes such as Hengler’s Circus and Astley’s Amphitheatre. Additionally this collection also contains a small amount of...
Dates:
c1786 - 2003
Found in:
National Fairground and Circus Archive
Sunday Chronicle Pantomime Annual, 1911
Item
Reference code: 178Z64.12
Scope and Contents
Drury Lane's Principal Boy, Violet Loraine. Black and white photograph of a woman in medieval costume on a white background on the front cover, inside black and white photographs of performers on different pantomimes including Jack and the Beanstalk, Babes in the Wood, Forty Thieves, Little Bo-Beep, Puss in Boots and Dick Whittington in venues around the country, performers talking about how to dress some of the characters in the pantomimes, some charicatures of performers and commercial...
Dates:
1911
Various Items of Ephemera, c1800 - 2016
Series
Reference code: 178Z64
Scope and Contents
Various items related to George Walter Poole, Wilton's Music Hall, Henry James Mayer, Alexander Billington, James Upton Printers, Gompertz's panorama show, Poole's Myriorama and Diorama shows and Messrs Strange and Wilson Ghost show. Also includes a theatrical clock with two figures on the sides attracting customers.
Dates:
c1800 - 2016