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Images from the collections

Images about Circus

27 images from works
  • The ugliest show on Earth / Animal Defenders.
  • Always on the move... : Glaxo antibiotic products are inexpensive to stock and always on the move from your shelves ...
  • Chris P. Carrot welcomes you to PETA! / People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
  • Maxi Schommer.
  • Circus madness / Animal Defenders.
  • Maxi Schommer.
  • [Newspaper cutting, "A soft snap" (in the series 'snap-shots') featuring a cartoon and a Living Skeleton and a Wild Man of Borneo talking about a Two-Headed Man. ].
  • 'Migril' masters migraine : it is difficult or any migraine patient to enjoy the circus, the theatre, the concert, or indeed any social occasion ...
  • Two circus elephants performing to a crowd by drinking and eating from a table. Coloured lithograph.
  • [Newspaper cutting, "A soft snap" (in the series 'snap-shots') featuring a cartoon and a Living Skeleton and a Wild Man of Borneo talking about a Two-Headed Man. ].
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Works from the collections

21 works

    • Digital Images
    • Online

    Miss Rosie (weight 36 stone) holding a bouquet of flowers

    • Pictures
    • Online

    The outline of a clown's bow-tie in multi-coloured wavy lines representing an advertisement for a gala circus night by Circo Chen at Campo Pequeno on 18 November to benefit the AIDS organisation Abraco. Colour lithograph, 199-.

    | Date: [between 1990 and 1999?] | Reference: 676103i
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Stop circus suffering now / Animal Defenders.

    | Date: [2002?]
    • Digital Images
    • Online

    Ruby Westwood Age 13 years., weight 17st. 3lb, Born at Foxton, New Zealand, riding a large three wheeled bicycle

    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Chris P. Carrot welcomes you to PETA! / People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

    People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. | Date: [2000?]
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Animal Welfare

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