Clowning
Found in 699 Collections and/or Records:
Noel Drewe Collection
A large collection of films entitled Circusama containing amateur and professional films on the themes of circus, performing animals and zoos, and edited clips from commercial Western and comedy films. The films are in a variety of formats including 8mm, Super8, 9.5mm and 16mm and contain related correspondence and notes. This collection also contains some sound reels mainly of fairground music.
Norman Family Collection
Oaer Nonob Russian Clowning Act Advertising Pamphlet, c1900 - 1999
Black and white photograph of man wearing a cheff's hat on the front cover with white type on red background and colour and black and white photographs of performance scenes with text.
O'Beirne Collection
Amateur Super8 cine reels filmed by Thomas O’Beirne, black and white and colour photographs and slides, circus and theatre posters, a watercolour and a small amount of other ephemera.
Obituaries and Funeral Cards, 1911 - 2019
Obituaries and funeral cards for George Sanger, Dame Laura Knight, Billy Merchant and Carmen Rosaire among others.
Original Artwork, c1910 - 1949
Drawings and card, mostly pressumed to have been designed and drawn by Lulu Adams.
Original Artwork, c1800 - 2000
Original works of art including artists' prints, drawings, watercolours and paintings, and designs for circus posters.
Original Artworks, c1821 - 1869
Small groups of artist prints depicting scenes of music hall and variety entertainment, magic and clowning and watercolour of battleships. Also prints of the London Coliseum and other archicture in Regent's Park.
Our Call-Boy Presents Bertram Mills Circus Drawing, 30 December 1928
Oversize Mixed Posters Printed by Taylor's of Wombwell, c1970 - 1979
Posters printed by Taylor's of Wombwell including variety and music hall, fairgrounds and circus.
Oversize Pantomime Posters Printed by Taylor's of Wombwell, c1970 - 1979
Pantomime posters printed by Taylor's of Wombwell.
Pantomime Print, c1900 - 1999
Brown and white lithograph of two clowns and a ballerina bowing.
Paulo's Circus Poster, c1980 - 1989
Freshwater Stroud Field. Colour illustration of clown and acts.
Paulo's Circus Poster, c1980 - 1989
Colour illustration of clown and acts. Left blank for overprinting location and date.
Paulo's Circus Poster, c1980 - 1989
Dover Lower Maxton Playing Fields. Colour illustration of clown and acts.
Peter Jay Presents Tower Circus Poster, c1930 - 1990
10th Jun to 31st October. White outline of blackpool tower, colour illustrations of a clown, elephants, a crocodile, a man swinging from a vine, six women in a waterfall and a chimpanzee in swimming trucks and a pool ring, photographs of The Chucklehounds and wrestler Big Daddy. Printed by W. E. Berry Ltd.
Peter Jay's All New Circus and Water Spectacular Programme, 1999
Hippodrome, Great Yarmouth. Colour photograph of female in red, yellow and black swimming costume, clown's face and white horse over a blue background on the front cover, inside introduction, black and white and colour photographs of acts and performers with text and programme in the centre, 8p.p.
Peter Jay's International Circus Poster, 26 May - 4 November 1989
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.
Photographs, c1880 - 1969, 18 May 1981
Black and white and colour photographs and postcards related to the Biddall and McIndoe fairground showman families and photographs of fairgrounds. Also colour slides of photographs of Kirkaldi Fair taken for a documentary on Scottish fairgrounds.
Photographs, c1850 - 1945
Black and white photographs and postcards of George and Jonh Sanger's circus.