Showman
Found in 718 Collections and/or Records:
Armley Spring Fair Poster, 27 - 30 May c1975
The Showmen’s Guild, Yorkshire Section. Red and blue on white background.
Army and Navy Stores Valuation, March 1954
Bound valuation of the Showmen's Guild's furniture and effects at Abbey House, Victoria Street, London, lising the contents of the building and their value for insurance purposes.
Arrest of a Pickpocket Film, April 1895
Nitrate format. Short film by Robert Paul and Birt Acres in which a man is pursued by a constable, runs right across the picture, they struggle together and the policeman’s helmet is knocked off, then the pickpocket, by slipping out of his jacket, manages to escape, but runs into the arms of a sailor, with whose assistance he is arrested.
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.
Articles and Monographs, c1880 - 1899
Script for Cinderella and Life of George Sanger booklets.
Assembly Rooms Poster, Wednesday 15 May c1901
Cheltenham. Hamilton's Grand New Diorama Under the British Flag, Russo-Turkish War, Constantinople, Bombardment of Rustchuck, Shipka Pass, Storming Fort of St. Nicholas, Fall of Plevna, Mount Aararat, Turks at Pray, Persia, India, China, Japan, Australia, Canada, Mr Frank Freeland, National and Patriotic War Songs. Black and red type on white background. Printed by Stafford and Co, Printers and Engravers, Nottingham.
Attercliffe Recreation Ground Fun Fair Poster, 15 - 24 July c1975
Sheffield. Farrar. Red and blue type on yellow background.
Auction Sale Catalogue, 19 November 2000
Auction sale catalogue of slot machines property of Mr John Carter with accompanying letter. Typescript and black and white photographs, 8p.p.
Audio Material, 1993
Copies of interviews with Showmen and women from the Nottingham and Derbyshire Sections of the Showmen's Guild of Great Britain recorded by Neil Calladine.
B. Cole and Sons Carnival and Fun Fair Poster, c1980 - 1989
Poster left blank for overprinting location and date. Colour lithograph of general view of fun fair with ghost train on the foreground.
B. Cole and Sons Pleasure Fair Poster, Tuesday 15 - Saturday 19 July c1984
Eastleigh. Black type on fluorescent orange background.
B. Cole and Sons Pleasure Fair Poster, Tuesday 15 - Saturday 19 July c1984
Eastleigh. Black type on fluorescent orange background.
B. Cole and Sons Pleasure Fair Poster, Friday 1 - Saturday 9 June c1984
Pennington Common, Lymington. Black type on fluorescent orange background.
B. Cole and Sons Pleasure Fair Poster, Tuesday 9 - Saturday 13 June c1987
Mansell Park, Millbrook Estate, Southampton. Black type over fluorescent orange background with bird’s eye view of fair in black on bottom section.
Barking Park Fun Fair Poster, 9 - 18 September c1975
Holland. Red and blue type on white background.
Barking Park Grand Fair Poster, 18 - 27 September c1975
Rishforth Road car park. Armstrong. Red and blue type on white background.
Bertram Mills' Circus at Olympia Programme, 21 December 1927 - 24 January 1928
Colour illustration of Astley performing an equestrian act in 1827 and black and white illlustration of a recreation act on bottom of page on decorative cover, inside elephant's head covered in Spanish head dress and net and holding a tamborin with its trunk on a yellow background on the front cover, inside black and white photographs and illustrations of performers and acts with text, various articles and commercial advertising, 24p.p
Bertram Mills Circus Programmes, c1900 - 1999
Bertram Mills Circus programmes at Olympia and travelling shows.
Bertram Mills Circus Royal and Gala Performance Programmes, Great Carmo, Bostock and Wombwell's, and Bailey's Circus Programmes, c1900 - 1999
Bertram Mills Circus Royal and Gala Performance programmes, Great Carmo's Circus, Bostock and Wombwell's menagerie and Bailey's Circus programmes.
Beverley Fun Fair Poster, 1 - 2 October c1975
Morton Lane car park. Shaw. Waltzer, dodgems, speedway, Noah’s Ark, Twist. Red and blue type on yellow background.