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Description: | Charlie Keith was a clown and a circus owner. He made his name touring in circuses around the UK and Europe. Finding that no circus was willing to employ him under his own terms and conditions, in May 1868 he opened his own circus, a portable wooden building which he called Grand Cirque Imperial at Exeter, featuring his own troupe of riders, jugglers and gymnasts.
Collection of photographs, playbills, contracts and other material relating to Charlie Keith and to his family's circus.
Archive reference number: THM/30. (3 boxes) | Format: | Playbills Contracts Photographs | Subjects: | Circus Gymnasts Jugglers Clowns | Temporal: | 19th century | Source: | Backstage | Address: | Blythe House, 23 Blythe Road,
W14 0QX | Creator: | Keith, Charlie, 1836-1895 | Identifier: | THM-30 | Format: | Playbills Contracts Photographs |
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