Exhibitions
Found in 268 Collections and/or Records:
Balloons! Balloons! Handbill, 27 August 1845
Mr Green at Cremorne Gardens, King’s Road, Chelsea. "Mr Green ascending in the Great Nassau Balloon" plus night ascent "amidst the effervescence of Fireworks! discharging a galaxy of irritated pyrotechnics from the car!". Illustrated. Printed by S.G. Fairbrother, 31 Bow Street, Covent Garden.
Bill Barnes Collection
Programmes, posters and photographs mainly related to the Poole family's travelling Myriorama show.
Billy Bellhouse Collection
Photographs, handbills, newspaper reports and financial records relating to Billy Bellhouse and his life as a wall of death rider as well as other performers.
Biophulax Handbill, c1850-1859
Life and Property Protector at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. See the operation of the biophulax. 'This sensitive and Mechanical Instrument announces the approach of fire'. A smoke detector. Printed by City Press, 1 Long Lane, Aldersgate Street, D.A. Doudney.
Bonassus Handbill, 1821
Newly discovered animal The Bonassus, at 287 Stand, London. ‘From the Apalachian mountains of America, is nearly seventeen Months old and Five Feet ten Inches high.’ A bison. Printed by Hewitt, No. 1 Prince’s Street, Drury Lane.
Bowder Stone Handbill, 1 - 31 May 1868
Fragment of Rock at Bowder Stone House, Kendal, Cumbria. Mary Thompson exhibits a massive fragment of rock which resembles a ship lying on its keel.
Bukovac's The White Slave Handbill, 1 August 1885
Bukovac's The White Slave at Eagle Place, Piccadilly. Celebrated nude picture from Paris, The White Slave. “This is an indecent picture...” The Bat, June 23rd 1885. Printed by Forman and Sons, Nottingham.
Cambridge Terrace and the Colliseum Regent's Park Engraving, 5 January 1826
Hand coloured engraving of a view of Cambridge Terrace and the Coliseum, painted by Thomas H. Shepherd and engraved by R. Acon, from across the street showing buildings and people walking along the pavement, a carriage pulled by a horse and two men riding horses. Published by Jones & Co., 3 Acton Place, Kingsland Road, London.
Captain Baker presents Lady Luck Handbill, c1930 - 1939
Lady Luck the racehorse with eight feet. "The only thoroughbred Race-Horse in the world born with Eight Perfect Feet and Fetlocks". Printed Shentons Printing Works, Cheltenham.
Chang and Eng Handbill, c1830 - 1839
The 'Siamese' conjoint Youths at London. Colour illustration by A. Sharpshooter depicting "Those extraordinary Human Phenomena" now exhibiting in London. Printed by G. Smeeton, 74 Tooley Street.
Chang The Great Chinese Giant Handbill, 6 October 1865
Chang The Great Chinese Giant, Lady Chang King Foo, Chung Mow the Tartar Rebel Dwarf, Ah Ying, Woo Kwan Toon, and Sing Ah Look at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. Multi act bill, Chinese nationals, mostly apparently dwarfs. Printed by Arliss and Co., 15, Great Queen St., W.C.
Chester Terrace, The Coloseum, St Andrews Place and Park Square Engraving, c1827 - 1828
Black and white view of the Coliseum from Chester Terrace, showing St Andrew's Place and Park Square by Regent's Park, people walking on the pavement and horse pulled carriages on the road as well as men riding horses drawn by Thomas H. Shepherd.
Christ Rejected Handbill, 1838
Christ Rejected at the Egyptian Hall Piccadilly. "A full length model of the fiend Greenacre representing him as he appeared at his trial". Printed by Star Press, 20 Cross Street, Hatton Garden.
Christmas Fair and Bazaar Programme, 27 December 1873
Mander's Huge Collection of Wild Beasts at Royal Agricultural Hall. Royal Agricultural Hall, Christmas Fair & Bazaar, Including Mander's Huge Collection of Wild Beasts. Printed by G. Tarrant and Co., (late Smith and Tarrant), 70 Liverpool Road, 4pp.
Coliseum Regent's Park Engraving, Pubished 1837
Hand coloured engraving drawn by Roberts and engraved by John Cox of the Coliseum from across a road with people walking along the pavement and carriages pulled by horses on the road as well as people riding horses. Originally produced for John Woods’ History of London: Illustrated by Views in London and Westminster, first published in parts 1837-1838 and subsequently reissued.
Commodore Foote and Sister, the Fairy Queen Handbill, 8 February 1886
Commodore Foote and the Fairy Queen at Royal Albert Palace. The Fairy Queens First visit to Europe. Printed by F. Worthy, 472 Battersea Park Road.
Corinthian Maid Handbill, 1828
Corinthian Maid at 109 Strand, Pannus Corium Establishment. "A mechanical figure that will draw an exact likeness of any visitor that will sit perfectly motionless during the space of a few moments". Printed by G Cox, Hanover Place, Regent’s Park Road.
Crecraft’s Exhibition Handbill, c1874
The Original Mr and Mrs Tommy Dodd at the Agricultural Hall, London. “The King and Queen of the Lilliputians”. Printed by Alfred Ballard, Steam Printer, Cannon Street Road, E, London.
Crystal Palace and South London Handbills, c1835 - 1899
Handbills for travelling exhibitions and sideshows at Crystal Palace and South London.
Crystal Palace Fireworks Handbill, 6 October 1870
Fireworks Display at Crystal Palace. Firework display including "Blowing up of the Bridge of Kehl". Also, Offenbach's Comic Operettas.