Bullen's Australia's largest circus [picture] : the big top comes to town : follow the crowds
- Bib ID:
- 5078791
- Format:
- Picture
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. POSTER 2023-2153 copy
- Description:
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- [Macksville, N.S.W.? : s.n., between 1935 and 1955]
- 1 poster : col. ill. ; 102 x 37 cm.
- Summary:
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Poster of artwork in colour lithography advertising circus and wild animal wrangling performances. Performing elephants, lions and horses surrounded by crowds. Beneath the images the poster depicts the entry area of the circus tent and the procession of the circus led by trumpeters and decorated horses.
- Biography/History:
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Bullen, Alfred Percival (1896-1974) and his wife Lilian EtheI (1894-1965), began with a pony and a few pairs of roller-skates, travelling around country shows. By 1922 the Bullens organized their own circus. In the 1930s it travelled in Queensland with a show that included its own brass band and a menagerie. In the mid-1930s the show drifted to Western Australia and built one of Australia's most exciting circuses of the postwar era. By 1955 the two-ringed circus had twenty-six acts of international class, its own mobile power plant, three diesel lighting plants, a schoolteacher, fifty-six vehicles and caravans, and eighty permanent staff who called Bullen "Pop". Their white Rolls-Royce led the procession of long, brightly-decorated caravans from town to town.
- Notes:
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- Caption title.
- At top of title: Macksville, location: featuring world's most thrilling circus acts. Iran troupe, Miss Wyhiva, Fraspa, Capt Ghenda's, Bullen's ten performing elephants, Renato, Mendez troupe, Francesco Bros., the flying Fernandos, the great Bevan, Moitra. Friday, 11th May 8 pm [POSTER 2023-2153].
- National Library of Australia also has a poster for performances at Lismore, N.S.W. [POSTER 2023-5717], and one with no location, possibly trimmed [POSTER 2023-5741], which are part of the Vivian James Carter Collection.
- POSTER 2023-2153 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-138066608
- Subject:
- Also Titled:
- Macksville : location : featuring world's most thrilling circus acts ... : Friday, 11th May 8 pm.
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- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2025 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Artistic
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1955
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