Ashtons Circus
- Bib ID:
- 7540019
- Format:
- Picture
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. POSTER 2023-5582 copy
- Description:
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- [Australia] : Ashtons Circus, [between 1980 and 1990]
- 1 poster : colour ; 63.3 x 45 cm
- Summary:
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Poster promoting Ashtons Circus. Features a red and white clown face, with yellow ruff, against a black background. Title appears in yellow lettering above the face and in green and black lettering below the image. A blank panel for adding location and date details appears at the foot.
- Incomplete contents:
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- Nth Sydney
- Murrurundi
- Narracoorte.
- Biography/History:
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"Ashton's Circus (currently operating as Circus Joseph Ashton) is the longest-surviving circus in Australia, pre-dating most others in the English-speaking world. The circus was founded in Hobart, Tasmania in about 1849 by Thomas Mollor, and acquired in February 1850 by James Henry Ashton, a man schooled in the tradition of English circus and who had experienced the hard times of the nineteenth century. The circus operated as the Royal Amphitheatre or Royal Circus. When founder James Henry Ashton died in 1889, his son Fred, then aged 22, inherited the circus. The circus continued to be handed down throughout the family, and today it is run by the 6th generation of Ashtons, Michelle and Joseph and their sons Jordan and Merrik. As Joseph had founded 'Circus Joseph Ashton' in 1998 prior to his grandfather's retirement in 2000, it was decided to apply this name to the family's main circus reflecting the current state of ownership and operations. The prior name of "Ashton's Circus" was retired. Circus Joseph Ashton travels mainly in South Australia and Western Australia"--Wikipedia, sited 26 July, 2016.
- Notes:
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- Caption title.
- Vivian James Carter Collection.
- National Library of Australia has three copies with information panels attached at the foot. Poster and panel measure 72.2 x 45 cm.
- POSTER 2023-5582 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-584079242
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Ashtons Circus, issuing body
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- Copyright restrictions may apply.
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2060 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Artistic
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1990
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