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Circus

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4644 Collections and/or Records:

Peter Jay's All New Festival Circus Programme, 1995

 Item
Reference code: 178K43.329
Scope and Contents

London International Circus Festival. Folding programme with poster inside with colour and black and white photographs of acts and performers and text, and programme in the back.

Dates: 1995

Peter Jay's Circus Greatest Hists Programme, 2003

 Item
Reference code: 178K43.335
Scope and Contents

Celebrating 100 years 1903-2003, the Hippodrome, Great Yarmouth. Colour photograph of the Hippodrome on a black background with colour beams of light coming out of it on the top section on the front cover, inside introduction, colour photographs of acts and performers with text, programme in the centre, 8p.p.

Dates: 2003

Peter Jay's International Circus Poster, 26 May - 4 November 1989

 Item
Reference code: 178R47.211
Scope and Contents

Colour illustrations of two clowns, an acrobat, horses, an elephant, BMX riders, a lion and a tiger, background is blue, type is red, orange, yellow and white.

Dates: 26 May - 4 November 1989

Peter Jay's International Festival of Circus Poster, 23 June - 10 September 1988

 Item
Reference code: 178R47.898
Scope and Contents

Hippodrome, Great Yarmouth. Water spectacle, Dale Martin wrestling with Bid Daddy. Colour illustration of smiley clown face on top left, two riders on bycicles below, a woman seated on an elephant's head on bottom right and a trapeze act on top right over an orange background

Dates: 23 June - 10 September 1988

Peter Jay's Superdome Circus Programme, 1994

 Item — Box Smart Family Collection Box 43: Series 178K44
Reference code: 178K44.12
Scope and Contents

Front cover: ringmaster with the circus behind him. Inside: programme in the centre, description of acts with photos, commercial advertising. Back cover: text and Blackpool tower image. 6 pages.

Dates: 1994

Peter Jay's Superdome Circus Programme, 1994

 Item — Box Smart Family Collection Box 43: Series 178K44
Reference code: 178K44.14
Scope and Contents

Front cover: ringmaster with the circus behind him. Inside: programme in the centre, description of acts with photos, commercial advertising. Back cover: text and Blackpool tower image. 6 pages.

Dates: 1994

Peter Jay's Superdome Circus Programme, 1992

 Item — Box Smart Family Collection Box 43: Series 178K44
Reference code: 178K44.20
Scope and Contents

Front cover: group shot of the circus performers. Inside: programme in the centre, brief biography of Peter Jay, commercial advertising, information and photos of the acts. Back cover: advertisement for Blackpool.

Dates: 1992

Peter Jay's Superdrome Circus Programme, 1991

 Item
Reference code: 178K43.327
Scope and Contents

Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Colour photograph of circus ring and curtain with neon sign above reading Peter Jay's Superdrome Circus on the front cover, inside introduction, colour photographs of acts and performers with text, programme in the centre and commercial advertising, 8p.p.

Dates: 1991

Peter Jay's Superdrome Circus Programme, 1992

 Item
Reference code: 178K43.330
Scope and Contents

Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Colour photograph of circus ring and curtain with neon sign above reading Peter Jay's Superdrome Circus and performers waiving underneath on the front cover, inside introduction, colour photographs of acts and performers with text, programme in the centre and commercial advertising, 8p.p.

Dates: 1992

Peter Jays's International Circus Programme, 1994

 Item — Box Smart Family Collection Box 44: Series 178K44
Reference code: 178K44.55
Scope and Contents

The item is a folded up poster. Front Side: various photographs of circus performers. Inside: programme in the centre, information about the circus with drawings of a clown, white horses and two female circus performers. Back Side: advertisements for other performers. 1 page.

Dates: 1994

Peter Jolly's Animal Circus Poster, c1950-1999

 Item
Reference code: 178R47.1240
Scope and Contents

Appleby-in-Westmorland, Wednesday 13 to Sunday 17 July. Black type on yellow background listing a range of performing animals and other circus acts including Eastern magic

Dates: c1950-1999

Peter Spier's Circus Print, 1992

 Item
Reference code: 178V11.75
Scope and Contents

Colour print of two circus tents in a field, the tent on the foreground is open and performers, animals and the public can be seen enjoying the circus, also trucks and animals can be seen on the field, published by Doubleday Books for Young Readers.

Dates: 1992

Philip Gandey's Cirque Surreal Poster, 1995

 Item — Box Smart Family Collection Box 51: Series 178H21; Series 178M17; Series 178R7
Reference code: 178R7.33
Scope and Contents

Brighton, Preston Park, Preston Road, Friday 5 - Monday 29 May. Colour illustration of trapeze and acrobatic acts in the centre on a red and blue background, yellow, red white and black type on black, yellow and red backgrounds.

Dates: 1995

Philip Gandey's Cirque Surreal Programme, 1995

 Item — Box Smart Family Collection Box 46: Series 178K44
Reference code: 178K44.137
Scope and Contents

Programme for the '95 Tour of Phillip Gandey's Cirque Surreal: State Circus of Imagination. Front cover has colour illustration in the style of a surrealist painting in yellow, blue, red and white on a black background.

Dates: 1995

Photocopies of Circus Drawings, c1900 - 1999

 File
Reference code: 178Z50.51
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of circus drawings showing Bertram Mills circus tent, the stables and the ring, A4

Dates: c1900 - 1999

Photocopies of Pencil Sketches, Pencil and Pen and Ink Sketches of Circus Tent, Transport, People, and Performers, Watercolour of a Lion, Oil Painting of Clowns on Board, c1900 - 2000

 Item — Box Smart Family Collection Box 50: Series 178G41; Series 178V12
Reference code: 178V12.7
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Works of art collected by the Smart family.

Dates: c1900 - 2000

Photocopies of Photographs of Fairground Rides, Steam Engines, Other Machines and the Smart Family, c1900 - 2000

 Item — Box Smart Family Collection Box 48: Series 178K44; Series 178Z46
Reference code: 178Z46.48
Scope and Contents

Includes Savage Brothers Ltd Roundabouts.

Dates: c1900 - 2000

Photocopies of Plans for New Foyer Front for Billy Smart's Circus, 1992

 Item — Box Smart Family Collection Box 48: Series 178K44; Series 178Z46
Reference code: 178Z46.47
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Various items of ephemera.

Dates: 1992

Photograph Album, 1963

 Item — Box Smart Family Collection Box 48: Series 178K44; Series 178Z46
Reference code: 178Z46.75
Scope and Contents

Handmade blue concertina photograph albums containing black and white photographs of Mr and Mrs Ronald Smart and family on holiday in the USA, 1963.

Dates: 1963

Photographic Album, c1921

 Item
Reference code: 178C104.1
Scope and Contents

Photographic album containing black and white photographs of different circus and performing animal acts, family photographs and panoramic views around Australia and New Zealand, 8p.p.

Dates: c1921