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 3 Collections and/or Records:
Egyptian Hall Handbills, c1821 - 1883
Sub-Series — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 1: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1.1-20
Scope and Contents
Handbills for travelling shows, exhibitions and performances at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly, London.
Dates:
c1821 - 1883
Great Moving Diorama of the Holy Land Handbill, 1852
Item — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 1: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1.4
Scope and Contents
Diorama featuring Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Mount Sinai, and Nazareth at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. Moving Diorama. Spectator is 'Conveyed on the route of the Israelites' taking in views from Mount Sinai, to Hebron, Bethlehem, Jerusalem to site of Solomon's temple. Printed by John K. Chapman, 5 Shoe Lane and Peterborough Court, Fleet Street.
Dates:
1852
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