Funeral service card for David Ernest Harris including colour portrait photograph of David and circus tent.

This collection contains rare posters, handbills, photographs, postcards, newspaper cuttings, catalogues and books on travelling exhibitions, speciality acts, magic, circus, performing animals and freak shows.

Battersea Park. Colour illustration of female equestrian wearing a long red outfit and a top hat, a female's face wearing golden hair dress and necklace and a clown's face on the right hand side and a trapeze act on the left on a blue background on the front cover, inside introduction, colour and black and white photographs of performers and acts, programme in the centre and commercial advertising, 6p.p

Battersea Park. Colour illustration of female equestrian wearing a long red outfit and a top hat, a female's face wearing golden hair dress and necklace and a clown's face on the right hand side and a trapeze act on the left on a blue background on the front cover, inside introduction, colour and black and white photographs of performers and acts, programme in the centre and commercial advertising, 6p.p

Battersea Park. Yasmine Smart Arabian Liberty Horses, Davida Smart and Dany Cesar Equilibrists, Robert Brothers’ elephants, Constantini Troupe tumblers, Flying Lantonys trapeze act, Paulsons motorcycle act, Mimi di Lello, Bubi and Juli clowns, Doreen Pedesen’s Penguins and Sea Lions, Los Castros high wire, Koziaks tumblers. Contains illustraion on cover and photos, 12p.p.

Battersea Park, London Summer Season. Colour illustration of female equestrian in long red gown and top hat riding a white horse, trapeze act on bottom left and clown and female face on centre right, also aerial act on crescent moon on top left corner, over a blue background and blue and white borders. Printed in England by W. E. Berry Ltd. Bradford.

Battersea Park. Colour illustration of female equestrian in long red gown and top hat riding a white horse, trapeze act on bottom left and clown and female face on centre right, also aerial act on crescent moon on top left corner, over a blue background. Printed in England by W. E. Berry Ltd. Bradford.

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, 200 feet. Black and White, Silent. Extracts from commercial films. Supplied by C. W. Cramp.

Poster left blank for overprinting location and date. Trio Lepino, Alec Halls Multi Instrumental Madness. Contains illustration.

Kingston Coronation Bath Hall. Trio Lepino, Alec Halls Multi Instrumental Madness. Contains illustration.

This collection contains black and white photographs and postcards of several generations of the Decar family with a strong focus on John Decar and his act as Decar and Tomato. It also includes other circus performers as well as autograph books and a scrapbook.

Scrapbook containing newspaper cuttings, black and white photographs, handbills, two pages from the Belfast Hippodrome programme and letters concerning the Decar and Tomato Act while travelling around Australia, New Zealand, 21p.p used, 54p.p blank.

Photographic albums put together by Den Curtis, containing black and white photographs of circuses, performers and animals with annotations, including Sanger, Chipprefields, Bertram Mills, Smarts, Hoxie Bros., Blackpool Tower, Belle Vue, Robert Bros., Fossett and Luckens Continental Circus and others, also some loose photographs removed from the albums.

Photographic albums put together by Den Curtis, containing black and white photographs of circuses, performers and animals with annotations, including Sanger, Chipprefields, Bertram Mills, Smarts, Hoxie Bros, Blackpool Tower, Belle Vue, Robert Bros, Fossett and Luckens Continental Circus and others, also some loose photographs removed from the albums.

Front page: drawing of a large crowding walking into the circus tent. Inside: programme and show order. Back page: picture showing how the circus changed from 1869 to 1950. 2 pages.

Front cover: pictures of the Miehe family. Inside: programme in the centre, welcome introduction, photos and names of the acts. Back cover: advertisement. 2 pages.

Black and white postcard of a man in a suit, thought to be Dennis Rosaire with a man dressed as a clown, possibly Aubrey Rosaire.

Black and white postcard of Dennis Rosaire, in Spanish matador or bullfighting style costume standing in front of a circus tent.

Black and white photograph of Dennis Rosaire balancing on one hand on a low wire. This photograph was published in Ruth Manning-Sanders book titled, 'The English Circus', published in 1952.

Black and white photograph of a man dressed in a suit in front of a circus tent, thought to be Dennis Rosaire.