Musical performances
Subject
Subject Source: Unesco Thesaurus
Found in 4 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
Gomp-Ertz Grand Diorama Programme, c1882
Item
Reference code: 178K53.14
Scope and Contents
Philarmonic Hall, Southampton, War in Egypt, Mr Owen Vauguard and Miss Marie Coulson, musical act, Fred Medex, Central and Southern Africa, Mr H.M. Stanley's encounter with the natives of the Congo River, Discovery of Livingstone, Tarn Bend, Victoria Falls, Pandanus or screw palm, Horrors of the slave system, Slave market at Zanzibar, Source of the Nile, Victoria Nyanza, Abon Simbel, Second cataract of the Nile, Throne of Pharoah, Nubian water wheel, The sitting statues, Sphynx, Sir Garnet...
Dates:
c1882
Posters, c1880 - 1899
Series
Reference code: 178R53
Scope and Contents
Poster related to the Poole family film shows, Gompertz's diorama and other early cinema travelling shows and venues.
Dates:
c1880 - 1899
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