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Gymnasts

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 54 Collections and/or Records:

Photographs, c1930 - 1955

 Series
Reference code: 178C141
Scope and Contents

Includes photographs of photographs of circus performers, compiled by Ruth Manning-Sanders.

Dates: c1930 - 1955
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Ruth Manning-Sanders Collection

Posters, c1880 - 1940

 Series
Reference code: 178R12
Scope and Contents

Large collection of Argyle Theatre posters.

Dates: c1880 - 1940
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Argyle Theatre Collection

Posters, c1800 - 2011

 Series
Reference code: 178R47
Scope and Contents

A wide range of British and international circus and menagerie posters ranging from the 19th to the 21st century including Astley's Amphitheatre, Pablo Fanque, Polito, Bostock and Wombwell, Ducrow, Cooke, Hengler, Sanger, Smart, Gerry Cottle, Bertram Mills, Chipperfield's, Robert Brothers, Fossett, Blackpool Tower, Billy Russell, Belle Vue, Great Yarmouth Hippodrome, Austen Brothers and many more.

Dates: c1800 - 2011
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Circus Friends Association Collection

Prince of Wales Theatre Poster, 10 December 1888

 Item
Reference code: 178R12.4
Scope and Contents Prince of Wales Theatre, Birkenhead. Zampi one-legged gymnast, Miss Daisy Victor serio-comic and Ballad vocalist, Mr Walter Mappin Artiste and Guitarist, Miss Maud Haydn Serio and Burlesque actress, The Sisters Mayfield, Maude and Minnie Tyrolean, Vocalists and dancers, Mr C.A. Watson comic man of colour, late of the Troubadour Quartette, Two infant Bicycle Phenomena, Messrs. Gilbert and M’Cann Black Bosses of the, Burnt Bung, Brigade, Villier’s Comedy Sketch company in Screaming Absurdity,...
Dates: 10 December 1888
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Argyle Theatre Collection / Posters

Programmes , 1881 - 2016

 Series
Reference code: 178K53
Scope and Contents

Pre-Film and variety and music hall programmes mainly related to the travelling shows of Joseph Poole and Harry Poole, Harry H. Hamilton, Mapleston Brothers and Adams but it also includes other showmen.

Dates: 1881 - 2016
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Bill Barnes Collection

Programmes, c1800 - 2019

 Series
Reference code: 178K43
Scope and Contents

A collection of mainly British and international circus programmes and some variety and music hall programmes containing circus acts.

Dates: c1800 - 2019
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Circus Friends Association Collection

Rosaire’s Circus Photographs, c1936 - 1950

 File — Box Ruth Manning-Sanders Box 1: Series 178C141
Reference code: 178C141.86-134
Scope and Contents Black and white photographs of Rosaire’s Circus and members of the Rosaire family, collected by Ruth Manning-Sanders. Includes photographs of the circus grounds, and circus performers in costume, often with the animals they trained, on stage and also backstage at leisure and rehearsing whilst traveling with Rosaire’s Circus. Individuals featured: Fred Rosaire (also known as 'Count Rosaire' or 'The Count'), Florence Rosaire (also known as 'Countess Rosaire' or 'The Countess'), Aubrey Rosaire,...
Dates: c1936 - 1950
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Ruth Manning-Sanders Collection / Photographs

Ruth Manning-Sanders Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0177
Scope and Contents This collection comprises correspondence, photographs and newspaper cuttings, relating to Rosaire’s Circus, compiled by the writer and poet, Ruth Manning-Sanders. Accompanied by correspondence with, and photographs of, Freddie Pickford, an elephant trainer, during his time working for Fossett’s Circus, as well as various printed items and further photographs, thought to be accumulated in the course of her career as an author, who wrote extensively on the circus, including a book titled, ‘The...
Dates: c1920 - 1959
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive

Sanger Circus Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0154
Scope and Contents

Black and white and some colour photographs, negatives, handbills, programmes and other items of ephemera relating George Sanger's circus and the Hall by the Sea.

Dates: c1850 - 1945
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive

Sanger's Grand Procession Poster, Friday 27 and Saturday 28 June 1863

 Item
Reference code: 178R47.33
Scope and Contents

Bath, Cricket Field, Pulteney Road. Sanger's grand procession on the occasion of the marriage of T. R. H. The Prince and Princess of Wales, equestrian acts, gymnastic acts, performing dromedaries, camels, llamas, cebras, Perubian God horses, elephants. Colour illustration showing procession of animals and carriages on a zig-zag line from the top to the bottom of the poster with text in between in black type on pale yellow background and title on red and yellow over blue background.

Dates: Friday 27 and Saturday 28 June 1863
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Circus Friends Association Collection / Posters / Victorian, Edwardian and Georgian Circus Posters

The Cairoli Family Circus and Chipperfield's Circus Films, c1950 - 1959

 Item
Reference code: 178D13.2
Scope and Contents BBC1, Chipperfield Advance Film Unit. Colour, sound and background music. DVD 1 assorted clips of the Cairoli family circus acts including bareback riding, gymnastics and clowning, behind the scenes clips, circus scenes in French and narration about the 'white face clown' in English, narrated in German tv broadcast. BBC 1 programme on Robert Brothers Circus, narrated in English, showing circus scenes, performers and animals, 01:27:01 mins. DVD 2 Black and white footage of Chipperfields...
Dates: c1950 - 1959
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Circus Friends Association Collection / Films

The Harry H. Hamilton's Excursions, Queen and Empire Programme, c1897

 Item
Reference code: 178K53.50
Scope and Contents Columbia, Manchester Picadilly, Liverpool Lime Street, Queenstown, S.S. Teotonic, New York, The lengend of Rip-Van-Winke, Tableaux vivant, Louisiana, New Orleans, Imperial Great Britain, Quebec, Hong Kong, Australia, The S.S. Arundel Castle, South Africa, Gibraltar, Holland, The Queenboro' Flushing route, London, Portsmouth, Windsor Castle, Harry H. Hamilton's variety organization, Flying Dillons, gymnastic act, The 4 Valladolis, acrobatic act, Japa and Japo, equilibrist act, Martinnette...
Dates: c1897
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Bill Barnes Collection / Programmes

Tudor's New Hippodrome and Variety Circus Poster, Monday 5 May 1902, now open for the season

 Item
Reference code: 178R47.13
Scope and Contents Union Street, Waterloo, Blyth. Seven Savonas musical act, Vincent acrobatic act, Mdlle. Martha gymnast, The Sisters Charms juggling act, Funny Luko clown, Elliotts trick cycling act, Claude Randall Family equestrian act, Rabbit, Bimbo and Cooke clowns. Red, black, blue and yellow type on off white background and some blue, yellow and red sections, and male portrait illustration on top section and two small illlustrations of acrobatic acts on blue background on bottom section. Wilson's New...
Dates: Monday 5 May 1902, now open for the season
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Circus Friends Association Collection / Posters / Victorian, Edwardian and Georgian Circus Posters

Victorian, Edwardian and Georgian Circus Posters, c1800 - 1930

 Sub-Series
Reference code: 178R47.1-51
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: c1800 - 1930
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Circus Friends Association Collection / Posters

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