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 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 4555 Collections and/or Records:

Peter Jay's All New Festival Circus Programme, 1995

 Item
Reference code: 178K43.329
Scope and Contents

London International Circus Festival. Folding programme with poster inside with colour and black and white photographs of acts and performers and text, and programme in the back.

Dates: 1995
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Circus Friends Association Collection / Programmes / Great Yarmouth Hippodrome Circus and Liverpool Stadium Programmes

Peter Jay's International Circus Poster, 26 May - 4 November 1989

 Item
Reference code: 178R47.211
Scope and Contents

Colour illustrations of two clowns, an acrobat, horses, an elephant, BMX riders, a lion and a tiger, background is blue, type is red, orange, yellow and white.

Dates: 26 May - 4 November 1989
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Circus Friends Association Collection / Posters / Blackpool Tower Circus Posters

Peter Jay's International Festival of Circus Poster, 23 June - 10 September 1988

 Item
Reference code: 178R47.898
Scope and Contents

Hippodrome, Great Yarmouth. Water spectacle, Dale Martin wrestling with Bid Daddy. Colour illustration of smiley clown face on top left, two riders on bycicles below, a woman seated on an elephant's head on bottom right and a trapeze act on top right over an orange background

Dates: 23 June - 10 September 1988
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Circus Friends Association Collection / Posters / Great Yarmouth Hippodrome Circus Posters

Peter Jay's Superdrome Circus Programme, 1991

 Item
Reference code: 178K43.327
Scope and Contents

Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Colour photograph of circus ring and curtain with neon sign above reading Peter Jay's Superdrome Circus on the front cover, inside introduction, colour photographs of acts and performers with text, programme in the centre and commercial advertising, 8p.p.

Dates: 1991
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Circus Friends Association Collection / Programmes / Great Yarmouth Hippodrome Circus and Liverpool Stadium Programmes

Peter Jolly's Animal Circus Poster, c1950-1999

 Item
Reference code: 178R47.1240
Scope and Contents

Appleby-in-Westmorland, Wednesday 13 to Sunday 17 July. Black type on yellow background listing a range of performing animals and other circus acts including Eastern magic

Dates: c1950-1999
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Circus Friends Association Collection / Posters / Belle Vue, Kelvin Hall, Boswell and Wilkie and other British and International Circus Posters

Phenomenon of the Female Sex Handbill, 1841

 Item — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 1: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1.106
Scope and Contents

Bearded Lady at 432 Strand. "Extraordinary Living Phenomenon of the Feminine sex, having a beard of 6 inches in length, whiskers and moustachios". Printed by Cheap Printing by Simpkins, Adelphi Press, 701/2, Strand.

Dates: 1841
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / John Bramwell Taylor Collection / Handbills / Strand Handbills

Philip Bradley Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0026
Dates: 1885 - 1950
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive

Phone and Train Expenses Financial Information, 6 May - 28 September 2005

 File — Box Marisa Carnesky Box 7: Series 178H39
Reference code: 178H39.89
Scope and Contents

Includes related invoices, budget outline, receipts and remittance advice.

Dates: 6 May - 28 September 2005
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Marisa Carnesky Collection / Business Records / Ghost Train Show Business Records

Photocopied Promotional Press for Jewess Tattooess (178G29.6), 2 November 2002

 File — Box Marisa Carnesky Box 7: Series 178H39
Reference code: 178H39.112
Scope and Contents

Printed material from the Science Museum website including images from the National Fairground and Circus Archive, freak shows and Marisa.

Dates: 2 November 2002
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Marisa Carnesky Collection / Business Records / Ghost Train Show Business Records

Photograph from the Stage Year Book, 1914

 Item
Reference code: 178Z28.49
Scope and Contents

Photo of Eugene Stratton in minstrel make-up, 2p.p. one page unrelated.

Dates: 1914
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Cyril Critchlow Collection / Various Items Related to Variety

Photograph of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, December 1945

 Item — Box Hamilton Kaye Box 1: Series 178R29; Series 178T9; Series 178K28; Series 178I14; Series 178Z30
Reference code: 178Z30.11
Scope and Contents

Printed photograph of the Red Hills Productions staging of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

Dates: December 1945
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Hamilton Kaye Collection / Various Items

Photograph of Marisa Carnesky, c2000

 Item — Frame Frame 14: Series 178R28
Reference code: 178R28.14
Scope and Contents

Photocopied photograph of Marisa Carnesky in colour.

Dates: c2000
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Marisa Carnesky Collection / Posters

Photograph of Marisa Carnesky, c2000

 Item — Frame Frame 17: Series 178R28
Reference code: 178R28.17
Scope and Contents

Photocopied photograph of Marisa Carnesky in colour.

Dates: c2000
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Marisa Carnesky Collection / Posters

Photograph of Marisa Carnesky, c2000

 Item — Frame Frame 20: Series 178R28
Reference code: 178R28.21
Scope and Contents

Photocoped photograph of Marisa Carnesky in costume in colour.

Dates: c2000
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Marisa Carnesky Collection / Posters

Photographic Album, c1921

 Item
Reference code: 178C104.1
Scope and Contents

Photographic album containing black and white photographs of different circus and performing animal acts, family photographs and panoramic views around Australia and New Zealand, 8p.p.

Dates: c1921
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Decar and Tomato Collection / Photographs and Postcards

Photographic Album, 1902 - 1951

 Item
Reference code: 178C104.2
Scope and Contents

Photographic album containing black and white photographs of the William Rosaire family and several generations of the Decar family as well as different acts and circus and variety performers and showmen, city views in France, Persia, Argentina, Switzerland, England and Ireland, 40p.p

Dates: 1902 - 1951
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Decar and Tomato Collection / Photographs and Postcards

Photographic Album, 1905 - 1953

 Item
Reference code: 178C57.13688
Scope and Contents Photographic album containing black and white photographs of fairgrounds, fairground rides, fairground organs, amusement parks, steam engines, living wagons, fairground shows and showpeople, including Marshall, Manders, Randall Williams, Codona, Holland, Smart, Wilson, Kaye, Jervis, White, Peters, Thurston, Pat Collins and Turner at Nottingham Goose Fair, Coventry Pot Fair, Poole Fair, Ashton, Newcastle, Widnes Fair, Birmingham Whit Fair and Knutsford and other locations and showmen and a...
Dates: 1905 - 1953
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Rowland Scott Collection / Photographs and Postcards

Photographic Slides of Festival Fools, 1980

 Sub-Series
Reference code: 178C85.1534-1572
Scope and Contents

Colour slides of festival fools by Dick Scott-Stewart showing street parade and performances.

Dates: 1980
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Dick Scott-Stewart Collection / Photographs

Photographs, c1930 - 1959

 Series
Reference code: 178C69
Scope and Contents

Photographs of Alma and Skid Skinner.

Dates: c1930 - 1959
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Alma Skinner Collection

Photographs, 1960 - 1999

 Series
Scope and Contents

Colour photographs of circus scenes, performers and performing animals as well as circus transport taken by David Harris.

Dates: 1960 - 1999
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / David Harris Collection

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