Bullen's Circus and zoo
- Bib ID:
- 7647218
- Format:
- Picture
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. POSTER 2023-5724 copy
- Description:
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- Perth : Shenton Printing Company [between 1935 and 1958]
- 1 poster : colour ; 101.9 x 36.6 cm
- Summary:
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Poster featuring a snarling lioness and an elephant. Trapeze artists appear at the foot. "Blocks by McShane & Pead" appears lower left.
- Biography/History:
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Alfred Percival Bullen (1896-1974) and his wife Lilian EtheI (1894-1965), began travelling around country shows with a pony and a few pairs of roller-skates. By 1922 the Bullens had organized their own circus. In the 1930s they travelled through Queensland with a show that included its own brass band and a menagerie. In the mid-1930s the show moved to Western Australia and became 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 members who called Bullen "Pop". The Bullens white Rolls-Royce led the procession of long, brightly-decorated caravans from town to town.
- Notes:
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- Caption title.
- Vivian James Carter Collection.
- National Library of Australia's copy previously folded, shows horizontal fold marks and edge tears, upper right. Details for performances at Wentworth Park, Sydney appear in a panel at the head.
- POSTER 2023-5724 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2632151758
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Bullen Bros, issuing body
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2028 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Artistic
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1958
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