Menageries
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
Bostock and Wombwell Photographic Albums, 1900 - 1914
Four photographic albums containing black and white photographs of Bostock and Wombwell menageries, including animals, employees, a range of performers, locations and travelling and setting up scenes.
Bostock and Wombwell's Menagerie Business Records, c1900 - 1999
Various documents related to the Bostock and Wombwell menagerie including correspondence with Birmingham Education Department, forms for contracts for ground and billposting, catalogue of animals and some stickers.
Bostock Menagerie Photographs, 1920 - 1934
Black and white photographs and postcards of Bostock and Wombwell menarie including images of the Bostocks and some perfomers, Bidewell and two photos of Alex Day with elephants.
Business Records, c1900 - 1999
Business records comprissing minutes of meetings, books of accounts, receipts, annual statements and other documents related to the Circus Friends Association of Great Britain, Bertram Mills Circus, Hans Brick and Bostock and Wombwell.
Circus Friends Association Collection
This collection consists of a large library of books and journals, as well as archival material including posters, programmes, photographs, films, handbills, research material, scrapbooks, original artwork and many other items of ephemera relating to British, Irish and European circuses
Circus Photographs Scrapbook, 1934 - 1975
Scrapbook of photographs, relating to multiple circus and acts including Chapman's Bertram Mills, Lord George Sanger's, Chipperfield's and Bostock and Wombwell's, 37p.p.
Cyril Critchlow Collection
David Robinson Collection
This collection contains rare posters, handbills, photographs, postcards, newspaper cuttings, catalogues and books on travelling exhibitions, speciality acts, magic, circus, performing animals and freak shows.
John Bramwell Taylor Collection
John F. C. Heather Collection
Black and white photographs related to Joseph Charles Heather, the Sanger Circus and the Bostock Jungle.
Newspaper Cuttings and Scapbooks, 1838 - 2007
A collection of newspaper cuttings on circus, circus proprietors and performers and scrapbooks containing newspaper cuttings, posters, programmes and other items of ephemera, covering mainly British circuses and venues such as Belle Vue and also some international circuses.
Orton and Spooner Collection
This collection contains a large selection of archives from the Orton and Spooner Company. The collection comprises photographs and cabinet card images showing carved work, structural work and classic painted work, 4 boxes of notes, invoices and clippings, 8 drawers of plans and blueprints, 2 folders of ride specifications and order forms, accounts books and a library of source books showing turn of the century art used by the artists in the company.
Photographs and Postcards, c1800 - 1999
Black and white and colour photographs, negatives and photographic albums mainly containing images of British circus, circus performers, animals and circus personalities but also some menageries such as Bostock and Wombwell and other associated entertainments and non-British circuses taken by David Jamieson, Lindsay Temple, Den Curtis, Capt. Middleton, Jack Niblett and other photographers.
Royal Windsor Big Top Show Programme, 28 May 1977
Home Park, Windsor. Black and white illustration of Wombwell's tent with elephant walking out and people around on top section and silver and white type on blue background on the front cover, inside Black and white photographs of the Queen, famous personalities and circus performers, articles and commercial advertising, 22p.p.
Scrapbook of Multiple Circuses, 1928 - 1944
Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings and black and white photographs, relating to multiple circuses and acts including Bostock and Wombwell's Menagerie and Bertram Mills, 110p.p.
Smart Circus Programmes, c1900 - 1999
Smart Circus programmes, including Billy Smart Circus, David Smart Circus and Smart Circus Royal Performance Galas.
World's Fair Newspaper Collection
This collection consists of the complete run of The World's Fair Newspaper from 1904 to the present day. Including microfilmed copies from 1904 to 1950.