Wrestling
Found in 56 Collections and/or Records:
An Outstanding Wrestling Progam Promoted by Gehring’s Professional Wrestling Enterprise Poster, 15 January c1950 - 1959
Association of Polish Women’s Hall, Tapco Joe Springo vs. Dr Von Dyke, Stanley Radwan vs. Dynamite Joe Bennack, Irene Ramey vs. Barbara Buttrick, Rough House Joe vs. Angelo Thonas. Black type on white background and black and white photographs of the contestants.
Apollo Presents John Lemm Handbill, 18 April 1910
John Lemm at The Oxford. John Lemm - Famous Wrestling Champion. "John Lemm will forfeit the sum of five pounds to any man whom he fails to defeat in ten minutes. (No challenges will be accepted from the front of the house)". Photograph. Printed by Oldfield and Co., Camberwell New Road, S.E.
Arabian Nights, Dogs Life, Nose for News, 4 Ballets of BB, and With Love and Hisses Film, c1940 - 1949
Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Boots, Auto-Load. 300 Feet. Universal Pictures. Silent with both colour and black and white footage. Extracts from commercial films. Includes; Albert Austin in 'A Dogs Life'. Joe Cook in 'Nose for News'. Bridget Bardot in '4 Ballets of BB'. Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy and James Finlayson in 'With Love and Hisses'. Also includes scenes of female wrestlers, giraffes, zebras, peacock and lions. Supplied by Perry’s Movies Ltd.
Argyle Theatre Collection
This collection contains a large number of posters as well as business records including records of artist bookings, accounts, scrapbooks, contracts and correspondence.
Argyle Theatre of Varieties Poster, 24 February 1890
Argyle Theatre of Varieties Poster, 31 August 1896
Argyle Theatre of Varieties Poster, 6 September 1897
Argyle Theatre of Varieties Poster, 10 April 1905
Barbara Buttrick Collection
The collection contains photographs, handbills and programmes relating to Barbara Buttrick’s boxing career and some material she collected related to boxing.
Billy Wood Collection
Collection of material related to Billy Wood travelling boxing booth, containing business records, photographs, correspondence, programmes, posters and other items of ephemera.
Blackpool Tower Circus Posters, c1930 - 1990
Posters for Blackpool Tower Circus including shows by Knie's Circus, Circus Krone, Circus Schumann, Bertram Mills Circus, Robert Brothers Circus and performances by Charlie Cairoli, Doddles, Coco the Clown, The Rosaires, Lilly Yokoi, Alfred Court, Vojtek Trubka, The Great Wallendas and Mary Chipperfield among others.
Blackpool Tower Poster, 1984
All New Super Circus. Includes All Star Wrestling with Big Daddy. Colour photograph with clown illustration.
Blackpool Tower Poster, 1983
Peter Jay presents International Super Circus. Includes All Star Wrestling with Big Daddy. Colour photograph with clown illustration.
Boxing and Wrestling Magazine, March 1954
Boxing specialist journal containing black and white photographs and articles, including article on women’s wrestling. 84p.p.
Chinese Circus Poster, 1988
Peter Jay present Chinese Circus, at Blackpool Tower. Colour illustrations of a clown, a man with a puppet Chinese dragon, a tiger and a woman riding an elephant, photograph of wrester Big Daddy, background red and orange, type multicoloured.
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
Cyril Critchlow Collection
Dale Martin Promotions, Wrestling! Poster, c1920 - 1979
Pleasure Gardens Theatre Annexe, Bouverie Road West Folkestone, Sunday 14 August and every Sunday night, Gordon Nelson versus Big Bill Verna, Black Kwango versus Harry Kendall, Eddie Saxon versus Bob Archer O'Brien, Charlie Fisher versus Irish Ivor Barratt, Black type on red paper. Printed by Brixton Printers Ltd., 313 Brixton Road S.W.9.
Dick Scott-Stewart Collection
Slide transparencies created for the 'Fairground Snaps' book and later projects. The material in this archive is all of Scott-Stewart's work relating to fairs and circuses, particularly from an artistic and social angle. This collection covers all the field work completed by the artist in preparing his book, as well as trips following the publication.
Films, c1930 - 1990
Amateur and commercial films on multiple formats, focusing mainly on Circus but also including transport, fairs, fairground rides and other types of travelling entertainments.