Fakirs
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Boswell Wilkie Circus and Programmes of Circus in South Africa, c1900 - 2005
Programmes for South African circus Boswell and Wilkie.
Boswell's South African National Circus Programme, 1958
Includes an introduction and a programme in the central pages as well as information on different acts with black and white photographs including, Koringa, The Flying Marilees, The Cycling Bales, Trio Chromatique, Les Morellys, Trevor Bale, Stanley Boswell, The Volants, The Congars. Colour illustration of woman wrestling a crocodile, surrounded by other crocodiles and snakes on the front cover and clown on back cover, 9p.p.
Charles Taylor Collection
The Charles Taylor collection is a fine example of Taylor’s of Wombwell printers’ posters, which highlight changes in printing techniques, fashion and taste within the popular entertainment industry. Included are examples of posters for pantomimes, fairs and circuses. The collection also contains handbills and other advertising material.
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 Verlaine Poster, c1970 - 1979
Poster left blank for over-printing location and date. Grin Europe’s No. 1 clown, acrobats, jugglers, fakirs, aerialists, animals, ritual fire spectacular. Multicoloured type on white background.
Cyril Critchlow Collection
Digger Pugh Collection
Archive of the Digger Pugh family including newspaper cuttings, photographs, negatives, business records, programmes, research material, posters and films.
Durrant's Press Cuttings, 1930 - 1955
Newspaper and Magazine Cuttings on Circus, 1897 - 2005
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.
Oversize Mixed Posters Printed by Taylor's of Wombwell, c1970 - 1979
Posters printed by Taylor's of Wombwell including variety and music hall, fairgrounds and circus.
Posters, c1937 - 1989
A collection of posters printed by Taylor's of Wombwell for music hall and variety, circus, pantomime and fairgrounds.
Programmes, c1800 - 2019
A collection of mainly British and international circus programmes and some variety and music hall programmes containing circus acts.
Richley Collection
Circus and sideshow posters including small amount of material on Koringa and copy of Bertram Mill’s Circus limited edition book written by the donor.