Collection 05: Mark St Leon further papers, 1875-2009

MLMSS 9352
SLIDES 297

sub-fonds

1875-2009

Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Notated Music, Posters, Photographs, Clippings, Ephemera

881153

1.20 metres of textual material, photographs, & ephemera ( 1 box & 1 outsize box)
62 slides - colour - 35 mm

BOX 1
PROGRAMS
1.Original programs including: Wirth Bros Circus, 1927, undated; Wirth’s Circus, 1955, undated; Wirth’s Circus & Menagerie, ca. 1925; Cirque du Soleil, undated; The Great Moscow Circus, 1968 & 1990; Police Circus, 1950; Shrine Circus, 1926 & 1932; Ashton’s Circus, 1963 & 1970; Barnes Bros. Circus, 1946; Ringling Bros Circus, undated (located in Box 2X); Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus, undated; Shrine Hippodrome Circus,1933 (located in Box 2X); Bullen Bros Circus, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1962, undated; Tivoli; Cherie de Paree, 1951; Ringling Bros & Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, 1919; Fitzgerald Bros. Circus, undated.
2. Photocopies of programs including: Wirth’s Circus & Menagerie, 1928, 1934; Wirth’s Circus, 1937-38, 1949, 1950, 1953, 1960-61; Bullen’s Circus, 1950-1969?; Silver’s Circus, undated; Barton’s International Circus, undated; Barton’s Follies, 1949-50; Sole Bros. Circus, 1947-48, undated; Madam Woodyear’s Circus, 1886.

MAGAZINES
Various circus magazines and magazines containing circus related articles, 1901-2008.

CORRESPONDENCE
Letters received, 1954, 1977, 1991, 2006, undated. Correspondents include Winifred Colleano, Dick Sandow, Phyllis Ashton.

EPHEMERA
Cards, post cards, tickets, invitations, flyers, 1875-ca. 1998. Include Erono Bros Trick Zebra (postcard), ca. 1910; Barnum’s Menagerie – Kangaroo (trade card), ca. 1875; May Wirth, 1908 (post card).

MISCELLANEOUS MATERIAL
Ringling Bros & Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows Property Manifest, 1953.
Sheet music for Alex Lithgow’s “Le Cirque".
Newscuttings, 1876-2007.

BOX 2X
PHOTOGRAPHS
Include Con Colleano on the high wire, ca. 1930; Colleano Family, ca, 1925; Girl on high trapeze, ca. 1930; Victorian Circus, London, ca. 1950; May Wirth, 1921, 1922, 1932, undated; The Meers Sisters; Valentine Napier; Coopers & Baily Circus, 1876; Walter L. Main Circus, 1936; W.W. Cole; George Wirth & Will Rogers.

SLIDES 297
First National Conference of Circus People, Melbourne, 1990 (62 slides).

POSTERS – transferred to Collection Services.
Maids of the Air. A Grand Galaxy of Glorious Girls, undated.
Wirths’ Circus. The Greatest Show on Earth, undated.
150 Years of Circus in Australia, 1997.

Access via appointment - Applies to SLIDES 297

Copyright status:: This collection has multiple rights owners
Copyright restrictions may apply: Photographs in this collection created before 1955 are all out of copyright. Photographs created after 1955 are in copyright for the life of creator plus 70 years.
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Upgraded as part of the Unprocessed Manuscripts eRecords Project 2013-2014