Fairground art
Found in 425 Collections and/or Records:
Accident Drawing, c1930 - 1949
Sketch showing a car crashing onto a rock and a boy being thrown over the bonnet. Pencil on grid lined paper.
Aeroplane Drawing, c1930 - 1949
Sketch showing a boy and a girl standing next to an aroplane. Pencil on grid lined paper.
Amy Goodwin Collection
Film about Amy and her work made by NFCA staff and examples of sign painting done for the Orton and Spooner exhibition in 2022.
Anderton and Rowland Collection
This collection contains copies of original photographs and photocopies of newspaper cuttings relating to the Anderton and Rowland families and their business on the fairground.
Arrest Drawing, c1930 - 1949
Sketch showing a boy standing next to his car on the road and a policeman writing a ticket. Pencil on grid lined paper.
Arthur Jones Collection
The photograph library of the Friendship Circle of Showland Fans (FCFS). This collection includes material relating to famous fairs, engines and rides. As well as containing a full bound set of 'Merry-Go-Round' journals and numerous books, letters and other journals. The collection includes various catalogues and notebooks documenting the use of traction engines on the fairground.
Bernard Fielding Collection
Photographs and scrapbooks compiled by Bernard Fielding. Each scrapbook contains a mixture of press cuttings including Fairground Mercury and World’s Fair, photographs, postcards, Paul Braithwaite history and patent material. Augmented by handwritten notes and research from other enthusiasts.
Bibliography, c1994 - 2000
Photocopy of Travelling communities, showmen and gypsy wagons, language, autobiographies/biographies of showmen; general history, individual fairs, fairground equipment and art, fairground transport, bioscopes and other shows, freak shows, menageries, fairground organs, general photographic history by Vanessa Toulmin.
Bill Garbett Collection
Colour and black and white photographs mainly taken by Bill Garbett of fairgrounds, fairground rides, fairground organs and transport owned by Pat Collins Fun Fair, Carters Steam Fair and the showman Alfred Stevens.
Bill Weeks Collection
This collection contains photographs of fairgrounds and steam engines, journal articles, newspaper cuttings, correspondence and books on railways, engineering, fairgrounds and other related topics.
Billy Coats Collection
This Collection contains Black and white photographs of fairground rides and people associated to the rides around Stirling.
Blueprints of Plans and Elevation Drawings for Various Fairground Rides, c1875 - 1939
Books of Patterns and Styles, c1885 - 1900
Books of patterns and styles including, Paul Rouaix Les Styles, containing classical patterns, E. Braun’s Kunstmythologie containing classical figures, Paris Exposition 1900 catalogue containing views of the exhibition and Paris and volume 1 and 2 of Formenschatz der Renaissance.
Bostock's Menagerie Front Design, c1880 - 1899
Jungle design wih statues of people and animals for Bostock's menagerie show.
Bostock's Menagerie Front Design, c1890 - 1910
Front elevation of Bostock's menagerie truck, showing heaving carving decorations, scale 3/4".
Broadway Trailer Design, c1920 - 1939
Detailed design for a three dimensional advertising trailer for a show, with text reading Rialo now showing, 100% singing and dancing, showing dancing girls in a city scape full of sky scrappers.
Business Records, 1860 - 1975
Various documents related to the business operations of Orton and Spooner including order books, correspondence, contracts, account books, product specifications and wage books.
Calendars, 2004 - 2010
Carters Steam Fairs promotional calendars containing images by Brian Steptoe and Anna Carter.
Carters Funfair Calendar, 2004
Contains photographs by Brian Steptoe.
Carters Funfair Calendar, 2005
Contains photographs by Brian Steptoe.