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Exhibitions

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: NFCA use as an entertainment genre not a museum exhibition

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

African Loan Exhibition Handbill, 1895

 Item — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 1: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1.174
Scope and Contents

African White Ants at Crystal Palace. Glass nest of living Ants. Printed by F.M. Evans and Co. Ltd., Crystal Palace, 2pp.

Dates: 1895

Crystal Palace and South London Handbills, c1835 - 1899

 Sub-Series — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 1: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1.168-186
Scope and Contents

Handbills for travelling exhibitions and sideshows at Crystal Palace and South London.

Dates: c1835 - 1899

Crystal Palace Fireworks Handbill, 6 October 1870

 Item — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 1: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1.175
Scope and Contents

Fireworks Display at Crystal Palace. Firework display including "Blowing up of the Bridge of Kehl". Also, Offenbach's Comic Operettas.

Dates: 6 October 1870

Handbills, c1786 - 1968

 Series — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 1: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1
Scope and Contents

Handbills for travelling shows, fairs, exhibitions and performances in London.

Dates: c1786 - 1968

Inauguration of the Opening of the Crystal Palace Handbill, 10 June 1854

 Item — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 1: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1.168
Scope and Contents

Her Most Gracious Majesty at Crystal Palace. Flyer advertising the opening of the Crystal Palace.

Dates: 10 June 1854

International Exhibition 1862 Handbill, 1862

 Item — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 1: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1.169
Scope and Contents

Wotherspoon's Victoria Lozenges at Crystal Palace. Juror’s have awarded Victoria Lozenges a prize medal.

Dates: 1862

John Bramwell Taylor Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0086
Scope and Contents The collection consists of handbills, programmes and small flyers for shows, fairs, expositions and circus performances in the nineteenth century. The circus material in the Bramwell Taylor Collection was sponsored by the Circus Friends Association of Great Britain and consists of material relating to 19th century touring circuses, individual acts and purpose built hippodromes such as Hengler’s Circus and Astley’s Amphitheatre. Additionally this collection also contains a small amount of...
Dates: c1786 - 2003

Microscopical Exhibition Handbill, c1850 - 1899

 Item — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 1: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1.171
Scope and Contents

The Lively Flea at Crystal Palace. Exposition of all things tiny/able to be magnified by microscope. "Opposite the great crystal fountain - south transept". Printed by Bowers Brothers, Steam Printers, 89 Blackfriars Road, London.

Dates: c1850 - 1899

Sir Roger C.D. Tichborne Bart Handbill, 1867

 Item — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 1: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1.176
Scope and Contents

The Claimant to the Tichborne Estates at North Woolwich Gardens. "Tichborne Bart; Claimant to the Tichborne Estates will appear at 7.30 and deliver an address in the Ball-room". Printed by J.W. Last and Co., Princess Street, Drury Lane, London.

Dates: 1867

The Cystal Palace as a Winter Garden, 1851

 Item — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 1: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1.172
Scope and Contents

Winter Garden at Crystal Palace Gardens. Including a "Grand moving Diorama of the route of the overland mail to India and the Taj Mehal". Printed by J. Carrall, Strand.

Dates: 1851