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Stunt performers

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 99 Collections and/or Records:

Jack Bulldog Drummond's Business Card, c1920 - 1939

 Item
Reference code: 178Z15.36
Scope and Contents

Business card for Jack Bulldog Drummond Globe of Death Rider from Edinburgh.

Dates: c1920 - 1939

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

K.O. Capers, Honest Horace, and Hotel Hysteria Film, c1942 - 1965

 Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 27: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.260
Scope and Contents

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Gepe. 350 feet. Black and white, silent. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; Snub Pollard in 'K.O. Capers'. The Fire Rides, Royal Marines motor cycle display team. Supplied by C. W. Cramp.

Dates: c1942 - 1965

Maplesone Brothers' Great Panorama of America and Canada Programme, c1883

 Item
Reference code: 178K53.6
Scope and Contents Pavilion Gravesend, week commencing Monday 25 February. 100 magnificent scenes, The Niagara Falls, rapids and whirlpool, The scene of the late Captain Webb's fatal swim, Miss Nellie Goddard, sigingin act, Mr Reuben Maplesone singing act. Black type on yellow background with illustration of eagle and shield on top centre and a decorative border containing scenes in the corners and other illustrations along the bottom and top edges on the front cover, inside introduction to the American...
Dates: c1883

Marshall and Scott Family Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0028
Scope and Contents This collection comprises family papers and photographs, relating to the large and extended circus and fairground families of Walter Marshall and Renee Marshall (nee Scott), together with correspondence and further photographs, concerning Walter Marshall’s service with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. Accompanied by some business records and newspaper cuttings, concerning the family business, W. H. Marshall and Sons Amusements (later known as Marshall's Modern Amusements...
Dates: c1880 - 1999

Marshall and Scott Family Photographs, c1880 - 1970

 File — Multiple Containers
Reference code: 178C45.1-910
Scope and Contents Large collection of black and white photographs and postcards, and colour photographs, some annotated on the reverse, of the Marshall, Scott, Kayes, Baker and Testo families, as well as various other circus personalities and performers between 1880s and 1970s. Including studio portrait photographs, photographs taken for publicity purposes and candid photographs, of individual performers and groups of performers in costume onstage and backstage, with the animals they trained, at the family...
Dates: c1880 - 1970

Miscellaneous Circus Photographs, c1930 - 1955

 File — Box Ruth Manning-Sanders Box 1: Series 178C141
Reference code: 178C141.135-158
Scope and Contents

Black and white photographs of various circus shows and performers, together with photographic reproductions of illustrations and drawings of circus performers, as well as advertisements for travelling circuses, thought to be compiled by Ruth Manning Sanders, whilst writing her book on the origins and history of the circus titled, 'The English Circus'.

Dates: c1930 - 1955

Monographs, Articles and Manuscripts, c1910 - 1990

 Series
Reference code: 178B19
Scope and Contents

Monographs, articles, manuscripts and notes, relating to the lives and work of the Norman family, notably showman, Tom Norman (known as The Silver King), and his son, Ralph Norman, who was a knife thrower (known as Hal Denver). Most the writings in this collection were written by Ralph Norman.

Dates: c1910 - 1990

Motor Cycle Club Membership, 1926 - 1927

 Item
Reference code: 178Z15.4
Scope and Contents

Millhouses Motor Cycle Club membership.

Dates: 1926 - 1927

Newspaper Cutting from Gazeta Warszawska, 1932

 Item
Reference code: 178G15.2
Scope and Contents

Illustrated review, Poland, 2p.p.

Dates: 1932

Newspaper Cuttings, 1932 - 2016

 Series
Reference code: 178G15
Scope and Contents

Various newspaper reports and articles in Hungarian and Polish about Billy Bellhouse's performances on the wall of death, some have been translated. Also an article about the closure of the chip shop business.

Dates: 1932 - 2016

Newspaper Cuttings, c1925 -2002

 Series
Reference code: 178G22
Scope and Contents

Cuttings and articles from British and international news publications, including local, specialist, and national newspapers and magazines, relating to the personal lives and careers of the Norman family, notably knife thrower, Ralph Norman (aka Hal Denver).

Dates: c1925 -2002

Noel Drewe Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0058
Scope and Contents

A large collection of films entitled Circusama containing amateur and professional films on the themes of circus, performing animals and zoos, and edited clips from commercial Western and comedy films. The films are in a variety of formats including 8mm, Super8, 9.5mm and 16mm and contain related correspondence and notes. This collection also contains some sound reels mainly of fairground music.

Dates: c1930 - 1990

Norman Family Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0087
Scope and Contents This collection comprises letters, business contracts and agreements, advertising material, printed ephemera and photographs, relating to the life and career of Ralph Norman (also known as Hal Denver), a knife thrower who performed as part of The Sensational Denvers. There are also writings by Ralph Norman, concerning his father, Tom Norman (aka 'The Silver King'), as well as draft chapters for his autobiography, which he titled, 'Knife and Hatchet Man'. Accompanied by a set of throwing...
Dates: c1900 - 2002

Norman Family Photographs, c1900 - 1994

 Item — Box Norman Family Box 2: Series 178C144
Reference code: 178C144.1-238
Scope and Contents Black and white photographs, colour photographs, contact prints, and some photographic negatives, of Ralph Norman (aka Hal Denver) shown in later life (c1980-1990) and also in costume performing his knife throwing act with his assistant, Olga (known as The Sensational Denvers) (c.1950-1970), visiting the beach, fairgrounds and sightseeing during a trip to Cuba, and the United States of America (June-September 1956) and his sideshow called, Chihuahua Town in Hull (1960), together with...
Dates: c1900 - 1994

Notes on ‘The Giraffe Neck Woman’ Kayan Lahwi Woman, c1900 - 1960

 Item — Box Norman Family Box 1: Series 178B19; Series 178I13
Reference code: 178B19.15
Scope and Contents

Brown envelope, opened out, with typed notes for a stage routine and hand-written additions to script. Diagram on reverse: Giraffe 3’, Totem pole 2’6”, 1/2 also Venus, Headless 3’, Decapitation 3’, pincushion [sic] 2’6” app, spider 2’6” approx, typescript and manuscript, 2pp.

Dates: c1900 - 1960

Photographs, c1930 - 1959

 Series
Reference code: 178C69
Scope and Contents

Photographs of Alma and Skid Skinner.

Dates: c1930 - 1959

Photographs, c1880 - 1970

 Series
Reference code: 178C45
Scope and Contents

Photographs of the Marshall, Scott, Kayes Baker and Testo families, as well as various other circus personalities and performers between 1880s and 1970s. Accompanied by a photograph album, a negative album and photographs, concerning Walter Marshall's service with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.

Dates: c1880 - 1970

Photographs, c1930 - 1955

 Series
Reference code: 178C141
Scope and Contents

Includes photographs of photographs of circus performers, compiled by Ruth Manning-Sanders.

Dates: c1930 - 1955

Photographs, c1900 - 1994

 Series
Reference code: 178C144
Scope and Contents

Photographs relating to the life and career of knife thrower, Ralph Norman (aka Hal Denver), together with photographs of family members, notably his father, Tom Norman, as well as family occasions and weddings, presumably collected by him and dated approximately from 1990 to his death in 1994.

Dates: c1900 - 1994