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Optical illusions

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: NFCA use for optical illusion shows including ghost shows and phantasmagoria

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Crystal Palace Programme, 12 December 1896

 Item
Reference code: 178K53.90
Scope and Contents

Black illustrations of musical instruments and a woman holding a small harp and black type on orange background on the front cover, inside details of concerts including lyrics and sheet music with informatioin about the music and listing of performers including, Akimoto's Royal Yedo Japanese Troupe, Mr Snazelle and Mdame Hoyce Maas, also listing of other events including picture galleries, Panoramas and Dioramas and Wulff's Great Continental Circus, 22p.p.

Dates: 12 December 1896

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

The Cystal Palace as a Winter Garden, 1851

 Item — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 1: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1.172
Scope and Contents

Winter Garden at Crystal Palace Gardens. Including a "Grand moving Diorama of the route of the overland mail to India and the Taj Mehal". Printed by J. Carrall, Strand.

Dates: 1851