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 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 153 Collections and/or Records:

Prince of Wales Theatre Poster, 11 June 1888

 Item
Reference code: 178R12.98
Scope and Contents

Prince of Wales Theatre, Birkenhead. Charles Diamond Harpist, Lottie Pedley vocalist, drummer and dancer, George Fairley variety comedian and dancer, Maude Haydn Serio and Burlesque actress, Bella Collins soprano and descriptive vocalist, Florrie Cuthbert Serio and Ballad Vocalist, Minnie Clarke song and dance artiste, Buffalo Bill Elliot and Buffalo, Tony Benson comedy duo. Printed by S. Griffith and Co, typeers, Liverpool. Green and red type.

Dates: 11 June 1888
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Argyle Theatre Collection / Posters

Programmes , c1903 - 1923

 Series
Reference code: 178K40
Scope and Contents

Variety and Music Hall programmes featuring Ben Jackson as well as many other acts.

Dates: c1903 - 1923
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Ben Jackson Collection

Prototype of Promotional Card for Ben Jackson, c1903 - 1923

 Item
Reference code: 178I15.1
Scope and Contents

Promotional card prototype with figure portrait of Ben Jackson, body in pen and ink and head on photograph including text in pencil on reverse.

Dates: c1903 - 1923
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Ben Jackson Collection / Trade and Advertising Material

Sanger's Circus Photographs, c1800 - 1939

 Sub-Series
Reference code: 178C108.489-597
Scope and Contents

Black and white photographs and postcards of the Sanger circus and family, including family portraits, show fronts, performers, musicians, parades and carriages, some of the people on the photographs have been identified.

Photographs 178C108.502-515 show Lord George Sanger's Circus on a European tour.

Dates: c1800 - 1939
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Circus Friends Association Collection / Photographs and Postcards

Savoy Poster, 3 February 1913

 Item
Reference code: 178R36.5
Scope and Contents Glasgow, Durward Lely and John Clyde in an adaptation of 'The Bonnie Brier Bush', Bert Barnes, in song, dance and bone solo, Les Lezallin, comedy wire act, Rondelle Billington, violinist, The Dainty Danes, Meely and Laing 'The Dancer and the Trap', Fields and Fields, the American comedy couple, Frame Flint, comedian, Ben Jackson, banjoist and comedian, Langley and Maguire, in vocal scene 'King of the Road' Marie Rose, the new boy, vocalist and coon delineator, Jeanie M’Bride, juvenile...
Dates: 3 February 1913
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Ben Jackson Collection / Posters

Schedule of Acts Under Contract with The MacNaghten Vaudeville Circuit, 3 May 1911

 Item
Reference code: 178H15.3
Scope and Contents

Schedule of acts under contract with 'The MacNaghten Vaudeville Circuit from Sydney Arthur and Frank MacNaghten.

Dates: 3 May 1911
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Ben Jackson Collection / Business Records

Sculpture and Men, c1920 - 1930

 Item
Reference code: 178C83.67
Scope and Contents

Two men standing next to a sculpture of a woman mimicking playing musical instruments. The man on the left is believed to be Joe Craston Junior.

Dates: c1920 - 1930
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Lulu Adams Collection / Photographs

The Coliseum Poster, 29 January 1912

 Item
Reference code: 178R36.2
Scope and Contents

Porthcawl, Ben Jackson in banjo tricks and comedy, Will Norman, the renowned vocalist, New Pictures but not able to decipher films as bottom. Black type on pink background.

Dates: 29 January 1912
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Ben Jackson Collection / Posters

The Crastonians, c1920 - 1930

 Item
Reference code: 178C83.17
Scope and Contents

Photographic print of Joe Craston and Louise Craston (Lulu Adams) performing as the Crastonians.

Dates: c1920 - 1930
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Lulu Adams Collection / Photographs

The Crastonians, c1920 - 1930

 Item
Reference code: 178C83.34
Scope and Contents

Publicity photographic print of titled 'The Crastonians'. Louise Craston and brother Joe in Scottish military uniform. Photo name 'Trattles, Leeds' and address in bottom right corner.

Dates: c1920 - 1930
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Lulu Adams Collection / Photographs

The Crastonians, c1920 - 1940

 Item
Reference code: 178C83.357
Scope and Contents

Joe and Victoria Craston on stage performing as the Crastonians.

Dates: c1920 - 1940
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Lulu Adams Collection / Photographs

The Crastonians, c1920 - 1930

 Item
Reference code: 178C83.359
Scope and Contents

Joe and Victoria Craston dressed in Scottish military uniforms as the Crastonians.

Dates: c1920 - 1930
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Lulu Adams Collection / Photographs

The Crastonians, c1925

 Item
Reference code: 178C83.360
Scope and Contents

The Crastonians dressed in Scottish military uniform with bagpipes and drum. Left to right: Victoria Craston, Joe Craston; Louise Craston. 'Gabor Hirsch, Frankfurt printed at the bottom

Dates: c1925
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Lulu Adams Collection / Photographs

The Crastonians, c1925

 Item
Reference code: 178C83.369
Scope and Contents

The Crastonians dressed in Scottish military uniform with bagpipes and drum. Left to right: Victoria Craston, Joe Craston; Louise Craston. '1925 Gabor Hirsch, Frankfurt printed at the bottom.

Dates: c1925
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Lulu Adams Collection / Photographs

The Crastonians, c1925

 Item
Reference code: 178C83.381
Scope and Contents

The Crastonians dressed in Scottish military uniform with bagpipes and drum. Left to right: Victoria Craston, Joe Craston; Louise Craston. '1925 Gabor Hirsch, Frankfurt printed at the bottom.

Dates: c1925
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Lulu Adams Collection / Photographs

The Crastonians on Stage, c1920 - 1940

 Item
Reference code: 178C83.190
Scope and Contents

Victoria Craston playing the bagpipes and Joe Craston banging a drum on stage during a Crastonians act. Both are wearing Scottish style military uniforms.

Dates: c1920 - 1940
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Lulu Adams Collection / Photographs

The Fete at Hightown Poster, 25 July 1923

 Item
Reference code: 178R36.1
Scope and Contents

Special Attractions under the direction of Mr C.F. Chapman, De Milo, juggler, Ben Jackson, banjoist and comedian, Arthur Bilsborough, entertainer and comedian, Fred Lloyd, pianist, A. N. Other, speciality dancer, Will Morris, ventriloquist and entertainer, The band of the 4th R.W.F. Purple type on cream background. Printed by Edwin Jones and Son Printers.

Dates: 25 July 1923
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Ben Jackson Collection / Posters

The Gem Palace Poster, 30 September c1910 - 1923

 Item
Reference code: 178R36.13
Scope and Contents Marine Parade, Great Yarmouth, Grand Cinema and Variety Entertainment, High-Class Vaudeville: The 3 Cape Girls, comediennes and long boot dancers, Dan Kirton, eccentric Scotch comedian and dancer, Ben Jackson, in banjo tricks and comedy, Electric Vaudeville: The Scalawag, Western drama, Reindeer Hunting in Norway, Her Gift, Edison drama, The Prince of Art, Selig drama, A Human Measure, Pathe comic, Trying to Fool Uncle, A.B. comedy, Colonel’s Escape, Great Kalem war drama, The Sheriff’s...
Dates: 30 September c1910 - 1923
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Ben Jackson Collection / Posters

The New Picturedrome Poster, 3 March 1913

 Item
Reference code: 178R36.7
Scope and Contents Devonport, Pictures de Luxe and refined vaudeville, George Grey and his full London company in that exciting and humane episode 'the Fighting Parson', His first skate, country woman in disguise, Tweedledum, Jack Egan and his Oo-la girls, American ragtimers, Lord Browning and Cinderella, vitagraph comedy 'Chaperon gets a Ducking', An official appointment, smart vitagraph drama 'Dupin up to his Tricks', Ben Jackson, in banjo tricks and comedy. Red and green type on white background. Printed by...
Dates: 3 March 1913
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Ben Jackson Collection / Posters

Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, June 1942

 Item
Reference code: 178C83.339
Scope and Contents

Group of people in with orchestra in hotel ballroom setting. 'Taken @ Hotel Astor Roof June 42, Tommy Dorsey Orch Broadcasting 9 pm'.

Dates: June 1942
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Lulu Adams Collection / Photographs

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