Business
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Bostock and Wombwell's Menagerie Business Records, c1900 - 1999
Various documents related to the Bostock and Wombwell menagerie including correspondence with Birmingham Education Department, forms for contracts for ground and billposting, catalogue of animals and some stickers.
Bostock's Menagerie Front Design, c1890 - 1910
Front elevation of Bostock's menagerie, showing heaving carving jungle decorations, scale.
Bostock's Menagerie Front Design, c1880 - 1899
Jungle design wih statues of people and animals for Bostock's menagerie show.
Bostock's Menagerie Front Design, c1890 - 1910
Front elevation of Bostock's menagerie truck, showing heaving carving decorations, scale 3/4".
Business Records, c1900 - 1999
Business records comprissing minutes of meetings, books of accounts, receipts, annual statements and other documents related to the Circus Friends Association of Great Britain, Bertram Mills Circus, Hans Brick and Bostock and Wombwell.
Cyril Critchlow Collection
Design Drawings for Ride and Show Fronts, c1880 - 1939
Drawings for ride fronts, shows and carts, including Chamberlain’s show front carved by W.E. Hilton, Bostock’s show front, chalk rubbing for window design, centre pay box for organs, Ghost trains, Corrigan’s front entrance, Smart and Elson sign, Frank Codona’s Speedway, Egyptian Helter Skelter design and Parry’s Famous Shows front.
Original Artwork, c1900 - 1929
Drawings and designs used for the decoration of fairground rides.
Orton and Spooner Collection
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.