Clowning
Found in 602 Collections and/or Records:
Trade and Advertising Material, c1900 - 1999
A range of items of promotion and advertising from a range of circus companies and performers, including artistes' photographs with act descriptions used for seeking employment in circuses and pamphlets advertising independent performances and circus companies' literature and souvenirs for public distribution and promotion including Gerry Cottle's Circus, Belle Vue, Blackpool Tower, Bertram Mills Circus, Gandey's, Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey, Knie and many more.
Trade and Advertising Material, c1900 - 1999
Advertising material for variety and magic performers including magicians, ventriloquists, clowns and hypnotist such as Dan Leano, Professor Lipka, Douglas Francis, Barry Sinclair and others.
Trapeze Performers, c1900 - 1920
Trapeze artists performing in a Russian circus building
Tudor's New Hippodrome and Variety Circus Poster, Monday 5 May 1902, now open for the season
Two Clowns, c1930 - 1950
Two male clowns.
Various, c1896 - 1939
Various items including promotional and business related material, related to Lulu Adams, Albertino and other performers.
Various Items, c1920 - 1955
Various items related to the Biddall showman family.
Various Items, c1800 - 2019
A range of circus related items related to Hassan Ali, Adha Issacs Menken, Barnum and Bailey, funeral items, illustrations of circus parades, circus tickets, discount vouchers and booking forms, circus themed stickers, famous clown clay models, circus themed jigsaw puzzles, circus model figures, comics books and children's books, Circus Friends Association related material, Montecarlo Circus Festival related items, Jesse Fossett's throwing knives and other items.
Various Items of Ephemera, c1970 - 1979
Various items of circus and film production ephemera.
Various Items Related to Variety, c1837 - 2008
Various items related to variety theatre in Blackpool and other locations.
Various Newspapers and Newspaper Cuttings, 1927 - 2007
Vi Miller, Lulu Adams, Victoria Craston, c1930 - 1950
Arts ball with three females 'Vi Miller, Lulu Adams (centre) and Victoria Craston (right)'.
Victoria Craston, c1940 - 1950
Publicity photograph of Victoria Louise Craston in clown costume with a trumpet. 'H. Studio, Leeds' printed on reverse.
Victorian, Edwardian and Georgian Circus Posters, c1800 - 1930
Early circus and menagerie posters including Polito's menagerie, Astley's Amphitheatre and Pablo Fanque's, Sanger's, Powell's, Ducrow's, Cooke's and Hengler's circuses among others.
W. H. Wilkie's Super Big Top Circus Programme, 1957
Colour illustration of clown's face on left hand side over a blue background and red, green and black type on yellow background on the right on the front cover, inside introduction, black and white photographs and orange and white illustrations of acts and performers with text, programme in the centre and commercial advertising, 8p.p.
Weights Circus and Zoo Poster, c1970 - 1979
Poster left blank for overprinting location and date. Black, red and yellow clown illustration, type in purple.
Welephant's Circus Poster, Tuesday 13 - Sunday 18 September 1988
Prestwich. Contains colour photograph of clown.
William Frederick Wallett Print, 1861
Engraving on paper by Mayall, printed by D. J. Pound. Black and white illustration of three quarters figure of a man in a long jacket stood with his right hand on his chest, presented in a golden embossed frame with a royal embossed coin beneath and dedicated to Brown Esq. from his old friend W. F. Wallett.
William Frederick Wallett, The Queen's Jester Print, c1800 - 1899
Engraving on paper by Mayall, printed by D. J. Pound. Black and white illustration of three quarter figure of a man in a long jacket stood with his right hand on his chest.
Williams Het International Circus Poster, c1960 - 1969
St-Niklaas-Markt, Belgium. Contains colour illustration of clowns.