Ridgway, Cole & Ridgway's Palace Circus. Touring Australasia. Nelson Saturday & Monday, April 6th & 8th. Vaudeville, hippodrome and trained animal exhibition. [Poster. 1912].

Ridgway, Cole & Ridgway's Palace Circus. Touring Australasia. Nelson Saturday & Monday, April 6th & 8th. Vaudeville, hippodrome and trained animal exhibition. [Poster. 1912].
Date
1912
By
New Zealand Times Company Ltd; Cabot, Charles Henry, 1890-1978; Cabot, Beatrice Eliza, 1894-1981
Reference
Eph-E-CABOT-Circus-1912-01
Description

"The following all-star artists appear nightly: Miss Sylvia Stanley, the daring and dashing Mexican trick rider; Mdlle Xenia, the lady who shakes dice with Death and skirts the borderland of eternity at every performance; The Ridgway brothers Chas and Will, the world's best head and hand balancers, gymnasts and acrobats, in their great specialty "Fun in a Gymnasium"; Kodama, the Japanese equilibrist and foot juggler, "justly styled the world's best"; "Denver Dan", America's greatest lasso expert; Lieut. Cole, introducing his famous sketches, "A Day in Dogville" and "Mirth in Monkeyland"; Doyle & Dinny, comedy acrobats and gymnasts; Will Clear, bareback rider, vaulter and leaper; Pixie, the smallest and most perfectly trained horse on earth".

Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Printed by the N.Z. Times Co. Ltd, theatrical printers, Wellington - 2947

Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster..

Physical Description: Relief print on poster 996 x 377 mm (cropped)

Additional description

Alternative form available: File print and colour transparency in Ephemera Room.

Access restrictions
Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
Part of
Cabot, Charles Henry, 1890-1978: [Collection of ephemera, posters and programmes. 1900-1976] / [Posters of around A1-A0 size]
Format
1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster., Ephemera, Engravings, Posters, Advertisements, Relief print on poster 996 x 377 mm (cropped), Orientation: Vertical image
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New Zealand Times Company Ltd. Ridgway, Cole & Ridgway's Palace Circus. Touring Australasia. Nelson Saturday & Monday, April 6th & 8th. Vaudeville, hippodrome and trained animal exhibition. [Poster. 1912].. Cabot, Charles Henry, 1890-1978: [Collection of ephemera, posters and programmes. 1900-1976]. Ref: Eph-E-CABOT-Circus-1912-01. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23193441

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