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Circus workers

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: NFCA use for non-performing circus workers eg grooms, tentmen etc

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Circus Friends Association Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0122
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1795 - 2020

Circus Performers (Back), c1850-1910

 Item — Box Sanger Circus Box 2: Series 178B39; Series 178C114
Reference code: 178C114.173B
Scope and Contents

Back of a black and white photograph of Sanger circus performers, includes gymnasts, acrobats and riders. Individuals are named on the back and are believed to be ; Claude Randall, Sam Hodgini, Georgina Coleman, Harry Hodgini, Dan Feeley, Kate Feeley, William Feeley, L. Feeley, Arthur Reeve, Clara Feeley, August la Place (Feeley, Dankey/O, George Coleman, Topsy Coleman, Little Claude Randall (Freddie Randall), Mr Philpott, Joe Cranston (Hodgini) and George Holloway

Dates: c1850-1910

Circus Performers (Front), c1850-1910

 Item — Box Sanger Circus Box 2: Series 178B39; Series 178C114
Reference code: 178C114.173A
Scope and Contents

Black and white photograph of Sanger circus performers, includes gymnasts, acrobats and riders. Individuals are named on the back and are believed to be ; Claude Randall, Sam Hodgini, Georgina Coleman, Harry Hodgini, Dan Feeley, Kate Feeley, William Feeley, L. Feeley, Arthur Reeve, Clara Feeley, August la Place (Feeley, Dankey/O, George Coleman, Topsy Coleman, Little Claude Randall (Freddie Randall), Mr Philpott, Joe Cranston (Hodgini) and George Holloway

Dates: c1850-1910

Circus Workers Erecting a Circus Tent Photograph, c1920 - 1939

 Item — Box Sanger Circus Box 1: Series 178C114
Reference code: 178C114.121
Scope and Contents

Photograph of circus workers erecting a circus tent.

Dates: c1920 - 1939

Front Entrace to Lord George Sanger Circus Photograph, c1880 - 1899

 Item — Box Sanger Circus Box 1: Series 178C114
Reference code: 178C114.25
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the entrance to Lord George Sangers Circus with three doors and one man standing on each the centre and the right doors. The circus is a booth style contraption on wheels and has three admission categories 1 penny entrance, six pence and three and two shillings. The frontage is decorated with the royal crest and a painted scenes of wild west and equestrian performers.

Dates: c1880 - 1899

George Sanger Circus, c1850-1890

 Item — Box Sanger Circus Box 4: Series 178C114
Reference code: 178C114.184
Scope and Contents

Black and white photograph of a large group of people, George and Ellen Sanger sat in the middle. Presumably a picture of Sanger with his circus workers.

Dates: c1850-1890

Groom with Circus Horses Photograph, c1890 - 1899

 Item — Box Sanger Circus Box 1: Series 178C114
Reference code: 178C114.6
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a groom with four piebald horses from Sanger's Circus.

Dates: c1890 - 1899

Horse Drawn Carriage, c1850-1910

 Item — Box Sanger Circus Box 2: Series 178B39; Series 178C114
Reference code: 178C114.175
Scope and Contents

Black and white photograph of a horse drawn cart and handlers. The cart, also holding a horse (presumably a performing horse), reads 'The Oldest Circus'.

Dates: c1850-1910

John F. C. Heather Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0056
Scope and Contents

Black and white photographs related to Joseph Charles Heather, the Sanger Circus and the Bostock Jungle.

Dates: c1897 - 1953

Lord George Sanger Circus at Balmoral Photograph, 1898

 Item — Box Sanger Circus Box 1: Series 178C114
Reference code: 178C114.101
Scope and Contents

Photograph of Lord George Sanger Circus with tent, equestrian performers and circus workers, trainers and grooms on the Royal Estate in Scotland in Balmoral, Scotland.

Dates: 1898