Showman
Found in 1141 Collections and/or Records:
Payment Slip for Tonight Show, 18 September 1956
Payment slip for $371.25 less $37.13 comm[ission?], leaving $334.12 net for ‘Tonight’ show, issued by Music Corporation of America Artists Ltd; 1p.
Percy Jackson Collection
Black and white photographs of fairgrounds, fairground transport and showpeople taken by a variety of people including Rowland Scott and collected by Percy Jackson.
Performing Animals Certificate of Registration, 16 April 1947
Certificate issued to Ralph Norman (aka Hal Denver) by the London County Council in accordance with the Performing Animals (Regulation) Act 1925.
Performing Animals Film, May - June 1895
Nitrate film by Robert Paul and Birt Acres, showing two animal acts filmed on the same wooden stage as the Boxing Kangaroo. The first sequence shows a skipping dog jumping through a hoop held by an animal trainer or showman. The second sequence shows possibly one of the earliest tributes to the Skirt Dance on film, with a dog or monkey performing the dance with the aid of its trainer.
Peter Jay's Superdrome Circus Programme, 1992
Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Colour photograph of circus ring and curtain with neon sign above reading Peter Jay's Superdrome Circus and performers waiving underneath on the front cover, inside introduction, colour photographs of acts and performers with text, programme in the centre and commercial advertising, 8p.p.
Photo of Hal Denver, with Letter Enquiring About an Answering Machine on the Reverse, 17 October 1988
Photocopy of picture entitled ‘The author – Hal Denver’ (same picture found elsewhere in collection of man in jacket with check lapels and buttons) with typed letter on reverse from Pearl Denver to Answercall Ltd enquiring about use of an answering machine; typescript, 1p.
Photocopy of Last Will and Testament of Thomas Noakes, 15 March 1922
Photocopy of an incomplete Last Will and Testament, written by Thomas Noakes, known as Tom Norman, dated 15 March 1922; manuscript, 1p.
Photographic Album, 1902 - 1951
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
Photographic Album, 1905 - 1953
Photographic Album, 1937 - 1956
Photographic Album, c1950 - 1959
Photographic album containing black and white photographs of fairgrounds, fairground rides, steam engines, living wagons and showpeople, including Silcock, Pat Collins, Morley, Holland and Hibble & Mellor and other locations and showmen with numbers. Photographs taken and collected by Rowland Scott, 28p.p some pages empty.
Photographic Album, 1948 - 1954
Photographic album containing black and white photographs of fairgrounds, fairground rides, steam engines, living wagons, boxing, fairground shows, circus and showpeople, including Silcock, Manning, Holland, Waddington, Ling, Butlin, Farrar, Marshall and Pat Collins at Nottingham Goose Fair, Chorley Fair and Southport and other locations and showmen with notes. Photographs taken and collected by Rowland Scott, 16p.p.
Photographic Album, 1908 - 1956
Photographic album containing black and white photographs of fairgrounds, fairground rides, fairground organs, steam engines, living wagons, fairground shows, boxing, wall of death and showpeople, including Holland, Farrar, Warren, Ling, Hibble & Mellor, Tuby, Wroot, Marshall and other showmen at Lincoln Fair with notes. Photographs taken and collected by Rowland Scott, 20p.p.
Photographic Album, 1905 - 1954
Photographic album containing black and white photographs of fairgrounds, fairground rides, steam engines, living wagons, globe of death, fairground shows, circus and showpeople, including Holland, Pat Collins, Cox, Proctor, Corrigan, Shufflebottom, Shaw, Marshall, Waddington, Ling and Pullen at Nottingham Goose Fair, Hull Fair, Lincoln, Huddersfield and other locations and showmen with notes. Photographs taken and collected by Rowland Scott, 19p.p.
Photographic Album, 1899 - 1955
Photographic Negatives and Notes, 1977 - 1978
Strips of negatives and three pages of handwritten notes about the content of the negatives, also some information on original negative sleeves, include printed and unprinted images from fairgrounds in King's Lynn, Norwich, Ealing and Northampton among other locations.
Photographic Slides of Fairgrounds, c1973 - 1979
Colour slides of fairgrounds, fairground rides, sideshows, people and stalls, taken by Dick Scott-Stewart.
Photographs, 1894 - 1962
Black and white copies of photographs and negatives relating to the fairground.
Photographs, c1900 - 1959
Black and white photographs of fairground rides and people associated to the rides around Stirling.
Photographs, c1900 - 1969
Black and white photographs related to Billy Wood's career as a boxer and as a boxing booth proprietor, showing many of the boxers of the time as well as some boxing booth fronts and other fairground scenes.