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 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 4710 Collections and/or Records:

Hoe Theatre Plymouth Poster, Season commencing Monday 12 July c1976

 Item
Reference code: 178R11.200
Scope and Contents

Howell Evans and Patricia Kane in ‘The Good Olde Days’ with all star company. Red, blue and black with curtains.

Dates: Season commencing Monday 12 July c1976

Holborn Empire, High Holborn, W.C. Poster, Commencing Monday 1 April [1912]

 Item — Box Electric Modern Printing Collection Box 2: Series 178R45
Reference code: 178R45.78
Scope and Contents Victoria Monks John Bull's Girl, in all her latest successes, Jack and Evelyn in Vaudeville quick-lunches, Harry Champion The quick fire comic, Lowenwirth and Cohan Hebrew comedians, Billy Williams the man in the velvet suit, Bessie Slaughter the phenomenal contralto, Kitts & Windrum present their catchy little comedy "The Cuckoo", Ted Curtiss & Pics, Rubinoff, Jermon and Walker, Miss Mary Forbes, and Co., including Mr. Fred Groves, in The Terrorist by Laurence Irving, R.H. Douglas...
Dates: Commencing Monday 1 April [1912]

Holloway Family Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0210
Content Description

Business records related to the fairground and theatre, posters and photographs of performers and showmen.

Dates: c1880 - 1993

Holloway Theatre Posters, c1880 - 1920

 Series
Reference code: 178R62
Scope and Contents

Posters advertising plays at the Holloway Theatre.

Dates: c1880 - 1920

Holloway’s Great ‘Number One’ Pavilion of Varieties Poster, c1880 - 1920

 Item
Reference code: 178R62.2
Scope and Contents

Bredon Road, Tewkesbury. Black type on orange background listing the plays. Green Bushes, Fettered at Last, My Sweetheart, Mother's Dying Child, Esmeralda, Cavaliers & Roundheads or the Days of Oliver Cromwell. Printed by William North, 139 High Street.

Dates: c1880 - 1920

Holloway’s Great ‘Number One’ Pavilion of Varieties Poster, c1880 - 1920

 Item
Reference code: 178R62.3
Scope and Contents

Bredon Road, Tewkesbury. Black type on pink background listing the plays. Lady Audley's Secret or the Muder in the Lime Tree Walk, Cottage in the Holly or The Widow's Wrong, Life of the Ocean Wave.

Dates: c1880 - 1920

Holloway’s Great ‘Number One’ Pavilion of Varieties Poster, c1880 - 1920

 Item
Reference code: 178R62.4
Scope and Contents

Bredon Road, Tewkesbury. Black type on green background listing the plays. The Shaughraun, The Innkeeper of Abberville or The Ostler and the Robber, Dead Hang or The Will Forger, Silver King, Staff of Diamonds, Idiot of the Mountain.

Dates: c1880 - 1920

Holloway’s Great ‘Number One’ Pavilion of Varieties Poster, c1880 - 1920

 Item
Reference code: 178R62.5
Scope and Contents

Bredon Road, Tewkesbury. Black type on orange background listing the plays. Aurora Floyd or The Dark Deed in the Wood, Nobody's Child or The Stolen Fortune, The Orphans or The Blind Girl of Paris, The Unknown a River Mystery, Life's Cross Roads or Treachery Exposed, Grean Hills of the Far West, laughable farce. Printed by william North, 139 High Street Twekesbury.

Dates: c1880 - 1920

Holloway’s Great ‘Number One’ Pavilion of Varieties Poster, c1880 - 1920

 Item
Reference code: 178R62.6
Scope and Contents

Bredon Road, Tewkesbury. Black type on green background listing the plays. Streets of London, Jenny Foster or The Winter Robin, Leah or The Jewish Maiden's Curse, Called Back of A Blind Man's Story, Mistletoe Bough or The Mystery of the Old Oak Chest, Dumb Girl of Genoa, Robert Macaire or The Two French Jack Sheppards, laughable farce. Printed by William North, 139 High Street, Twekesbury.

Dates: c1880 - 1920

Holloway’s Great ‘Number One’ Pavilion of Varieties Poster, c1880 - 1920

 Item
Reference code: 178R62.7
Scope and Contents

Bredon Road, Tewkesbury. Black type on green background listing the plays. Mary Warner of No.15, The Female Convict, Katheleen Mavourneen or The Dream of St. Patrick's Eve, Ingomar or The Son of the Wilderness, Factory Girl of All That Glitters is not Gold.

Dates: c1880 - 1920

Hollywood Oddities Poster, c1930 - 1949

 Item
Reference code: 178R45.3
Scope and Contents

Girl with a radio mind, she sees all, knows all. ‘Believe it or Not’. Colour illustration of bust of woman on profile holding a glass ball blindfolded on light blue and black background with black and white type.

Dates: c1930 - 1949

Horace Goldin Creator of Wonders Booklet, c1930 - 1939

 Item — Box Hamilton Kaye Box 1: Series 178R29; Series 178T9; Series 178K28; Series 178I14; Series 178Z30
Reference code: 178I14.15
Scope and Contents

Promotional booklet for magician Horace Goldin, "Creator of Wonders". Ilustrated cover, 24pp.

Dates: c1930 - 1939

Horace Holloway’s Electric Prince of Wales Theatre Poster, c1880 - 1920

 Item
Reference code: 178R62.8
Scope and Contents

Levett's Field, Lichfield. Blue type on off white background listing the plays. The White Sheik, The Dumb Man of Manchester, Ingomar The Barbarian of A Son of the Wilderness, Klondike, Peace. Printed by Baxters, Printers, Atherstone.

Dates: c1880 - 1920

Horace Holloway’s New Prince of Wales Theatre Poster, c1880 - 1920

 Item
Reference code: 178R62.1
Scope and Contents

Fair Field, Bewdley. Blue type on silk listing the plays. Our Lads in Red, Sentenced to Death, day performance for children Litte Hero, Sexton Blake, Man they Could Not Hang, Man Against Man, Mona or The Girl I love, comic concert and funny farce.

Dates: c1880 - 1920

Horse and Carriage Photograph, c1880 - 1899

 Item — Box Sanger Circus Box 1: Series 178C114
Reference code: 178C114.41
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a horse and carriage being driven at an event by George Sanger and his brother William. There are food stalls in the rear of the photograph, including Wenham's. Also a sign for Belgrave Boarding House, 9 Royal Crescent. 'Dada and William Sanger driving' written on the front in ink.

Dates: c1880 - 1899

Horse and Carriage with Circus Band Photograph, c1910 - 1919

 Item — Box Sanger Circus Box 1: Series 178C114
Reference code: 178C114.71
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a horse and carriage outside the Wilbraham Arms Hotel, Nantwich, Cheshire. The carriage is carrying musicians from a circus band and has the lettering Ginnett's Royal Circus on the side.

Dates: c1910 - 1919

Horses And Performers Photograph, c1880 - 1910

 Item — Box Sanger Circus Box 3: Series 178B39; Series 178C114
Reference code: 178C114.161
Scope and Contents

Black and white photograph of part of Lord George Sanger Circus parade with crowds of people in a field.

Dates: c1880 - 1910

Houdini in Russia Poster, 1903 original, 1993 reproduction

 Item
Reference code: 178R27.67
Scope and Contents

Colour illustration of Houdini escape in Moscow.

Dates: 1903 original; 1993 reproduction

Houdini Poster, c1990 - 1999

 Item
Reference code: 178R27.99
Scope and Contents

Houdini presents his Great Chinese Water Torture Cell Escape. Black and white illustration of Hodini inside a water tank.

Dates: c1990 - 1999

Houdini Poster, c1990 - 1999

 Item
Reference code: 178R27.100
Scope and Contents

Houdini presents his Great Chinese Water Torture Cell Escape. Black and white illustration of Hodini inside a water tank.

Dates: c1990 - 1999