Set out in the style of a wanted poster, advertising slight of hand magician and 'pick pocket' Gentleman Jack at Chipperfields Circus, printed on yellow paper, with black and white photograph of Gentleman Jack and black type. Printed by Winfield Press

Collection of circus books, journals and films.

Promotion for George A. Hamid, Inc; a talent agency that represented various performers. Includes information about the various performers. Black and white photographs of the performers. 40 pages.

Promotion for George A. Hamid & Son; a talent agency that represented various performers. Information about the various performers. Black and white photographs of the performers. 38 pages.

The collection contains numerous photographs, newspaper cuttings relating to traction engines and 40 rally programmes.

Black and white photographs of Mrs Emma Coleman, Georgina Coleman and a troupe of five female bareback riders including Emma Coleman.

Black and white photographs showing George Sanger Circus, performers and staff, living wagons, street parades and circus tents.

Black and white photographs of George Sanger's Circus, including a head and shoulders framed portrait of George Sanger.

Scrapbook containing newspaper cuttings about George Sanger's Circus, some pages are empty, 31pp.

In Memoriam, tragic Death of George Sanger. Obituary from The Era. Black type on white paper with black border and black and white head and shoulders portrait of George Sanger in the centre, contains a prayer by Thomas Horne, 1p.

In Memoriam, tragic Death of George Sanger. Obituary from The Era. Black type on white paper with black border and black and white head and shoulders portrait of George Sanger in the centre, contains a prayer by Thomas Horne, 1p.

This collection comprises fairground photographs and 3 members' cards, two from Yorkshire Stall Holders Association and one from the Yorkshire section of the Showmen's Guild

Programmes for German circuses including Circus Krone, Aladin, German National Circus, Circus Stey, Circus Nock, Circus Bavaria, Circus Royal, Friedrichstadt-Palast, Alberti, Cirkus Frankello, Hagenbeck, Brumbach and others, containing colour illustrations and photographs on the front covers, inside black and white and colour photographs of perfomers and acts with text, programme and commercial advertising.

This collection contains material from Gerry Cottle’s personal collection and has examples of flyers, programmes, vouchers and posters from Cottle and Austen, Circus of Horrors and Cottle’s Circus

DVD. Colour with Black and White footage. Sound. Produced by ITV News. ITV News segment with Gerry Cottle and an Animal Aid representative talking about animal rights in the circus and the new direction the Gerry Cottle circus was taking. Interview Time: 18:00 - 23:52. Total Running Time: 2:59:55. Rest of the DVD consists of ITV news program and parts of movies recorded from TV.

VHS.

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Grasso. 200 feet. Silent, in Colour. Clips of Gerry Cottle's Circus spliced together. Gerry Cottle's Non-Animal Circus filmed in 1985 at Jamin Field, Hemel Hempstead. Gerry Cottle Clow Stunt recorded from the Television in 1993. Cottle Sisters Circus filmed at Nash Mills, Hemel Hempstead. Supplied by C. W. Cramp.

Abstract colour illustration of a woman in a gold leotard and top hat surrounded by multicoloured balloons, one with a face and two with hands, with a rainbow above and a pattern of purple lines below, background cream, type red, black and blue

A Theatrical Production of Circus arts. Contains colour illustration. Left blank for overprinting location and date.

Dumfries, Park Farm Showfield. Yasmine Smart and her horses. Colour illustration of many circus acts including a woman being carried in the mouth of an elephant, a man performing on the suspended spinning wheel, a clown, two Chinese dragons and three horses, background red, pink and white, type multicoloured