Boxing
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Original Artwork, c1900 - 1929
Series
Reference code: 178V10
Scope and Contents
Drawings and designs used for the decoration of fairground rides.
Dates:
c1900 - 1929
Orton and Spooner Collection
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0070
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a large selection of archives from the Orton and Spooner Company. The collection comprises photographs and cabinet card images showing carved work, structural work and classic painted work, 4 boxes of notes, invoices and clippings, 8 drawers of plans and blueprints, 2 folders of ride specifications and order forms, accounts books and a library of source books showing turn of the century art used by the artists in the company.
Dates:
c1870 - 1969
Found in:
National Fairground and Circus Archive
Photographic Album, 1899 - 1955
Item
Reference code: 178C57.13695
Scope and Contents
Photographic album containing black and white photographs of fairgrounds, fairground rides, fairground organs, boxing booths, steam engines and transport, Showpeople, circus and fairground shows including Murphy, Harniest, Deakin, Waddington, Anderton and Rowland, Silcock, Harry Lee, Shaw, Proctor, Reany, M.A. Collins and Tom Norman at Hull Fair, Northampton Fair, Stockport, Daisy Nook, Heaton Park, Oldham and other locations and showmen with notes. Photographs taken and collected by Rowland...
Dates:
1899 - 1955
Plans, c1916 - 1939
Series
Reference code: 178M15
Scope and Contents
Blueprints of electric parts for fairground rides supplied by Mather & Platt Ltd and Hackett & Co., Electrical Engineers to Orton and Spooner.
Dates:
c1916 - 1939