Wild west
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Billy Smart's Circus and Wild West Show Poster, c1946 - 1999
Porstmouth, Southsea Common, 11-16 August. Yellow and orange type and white type on dark blue background with illustration of clown's face and arm in green bowler hat on top section. Printed by W. E. Berry Ltd. Bradford.
Billy Smart's Circus and Wild West Show Poster, c1946 - 1999
Brighton, The Level, 18-30 August. Produced by Master Showmen. Black, white and yellow and red combined type on white and dark blue background. Printed by W. E. Berry Ltd Bradford.
Billy Smart's Circus plus Western Spectacle Poster, c1946 - 1999
Billy Smart's Circus plus Western Spectacle Poster, 5 - 10 August 1957
Billy Smart's Circus Poster, 9 - 11 June 1966
Cheltenham, Sandford Mill Road/Old Bath Road. Colour illustration of bust of Billy Smart wearing hat and bow tie and holding a cigar with circus ring scene on the background showing wild west act.
Billy Smart's Circus Poster, 26 October - 14 November 1959
Clapham Common. Western Spectacle, wild west act, The 1001 Arabian Nights Fantasy. Yellow, pink, white and brown type on brown, yellow and white background and a colour illustration for each programme theme showing the gun battle and the magic horse in yellow, blue, pink, black and white. Printed by W. E. Berry Ltd Bradford.
Billy Smart's Circus Poster, 10 - 12 June 1962
Stratford-on-Avon, Bishopton Field, Birmingham Road. Aerial fantasy, 20 elephants, The Fairyland story, U.S. Seventh Cavalry western show, polar bears, chimpanzees, camels plus over 150 other animals. Colour illustration of clown in green jacket and red trousers holding seven coloured ballons containing the circus acts over a black starry background. Printed by W. E. Berry Ltd Bradford.
Billy Smart's Circus Poster, 15 - 20 April 1957
York, The Knavesmire. Presenting the new circorama plus great western spectacle featuring Davy Crockett. Colour illustration of western scene in ladscape showing native Americans and settlers in battle, a larger figure of a native American stood on a hill with his right arm raise and opposite Davy Crockett hodling a riffle. Printed by W. E. Berry Ltd Bradford.
Billy Smart's Circus Poster, 6 - 11 July 1957
Preston, Moor Park. Featuring for the first time two super spectacles, The Wild West Show and the Arabian Nights Review. Colour illustration of a man in a turbant and a woman riding a black, winged horse in the centre, a man on a flying carpet on top left, belly dancers on bottom left and elephants with colour covers on. Printed by W. E. Berry Ltd Bradford.
Billy Smart's Circus Poster, 13 - 15 September 1962
Hereford, The Race course. Featuring for the first time anywhere two super spectacles, The Wild West Show plus a new production, Fairyland Fantasy. Colour illustration of wild west scene showing a settlers' caravan being chased by native Americans. Printed by W. E. Berry Ltd Bradford.
Christopher Palmer Collection
Circus programmes and VHS tapes from Billy Smart’s Circus and Chipperfields’s Circus collected during the 1970s and early 1980s by the TV producer, Christopher John Palmer. There are also a number of promotional photographs of artistes and other ephemera related to the circus.
Circus Friends Association Collection
This collection consists of a large library of books and journals, as well as archival material including posters, programmes, photographs, films, handbills, research material, scrapbooks, original artwork and many other items of ephemera relating to British, Irish and European circuses
Posters, c1887 - 2010
Circus, variety, pantomime and magic posters including Argyle theatre, Liverpool Empire, Blackpool Tower Circus, Robert Brothers, Austen Brothers, Sorcar, Vesta Tilley, Ken Dodd, Dan Leno, Florrie Forde and others.
Programmes, c1800 - 2019
A collection of mainly British and international circus programmes and some variety and music hall programmes containing circus acts.
Smart Circus Posters, c1946 - 1999
Billy Smart's and David Smart's Circus posters.
Victorian, Edwardian and Georgian Circus Posters, c1800 - 1930
Early circus and menagerie posters including Polito's menagerie, Astley's Amphitheatre and Pablo Fanque's, Sanger's, Powell's, Ducrow's, Cooke's and Hengler's circuses among others.