Circuses in the City

Letter - Request for circus to give benefit performance to City Ambulance Society, 1898

Letter - Request for circus to parade the city, 1898

Letter - Request for use of Belmore Park under same conditions as previous visits, 1897

Letter - Response to permission for circus to practice in exhibition hall, 1893

Letter - Application to lease a portion of Belmore Park for circus tent, 1892

Letter - Request to erect a circus at Blackfriars estate, George Street, 1891

Letter - Application for permission to erect circus tent in Belmore Park, 1887

Letter - Request for permission for circus to perform in Haymarket, 1888

Letter - Request for patronage and presence at the circus, 1872

Letter - Request for permission for use of Prince Alfred Park for circus, 1877

File - Request to make use of Manning fruit market for a circus and hippodrome, 1912

File - Application to lease portion of Prince Alfred Park for circus, 1911

File - Request for permission to use Prince Alfred Park for circus, 1911

File - Request for inspection of circus at Rawson Place, 1907

File - Application for Bostock & Wombwell's Circus at Prince Alfred Park, 1906

File - Request for rental of Belmore Park for circus, 1905

File - Request to use Belmore and Prince Alfred Park for circuses, 1905-1906

File - Request to erect bandstand, ticket office and seating for circus, Philip Park, 1904

File - Request to erect tenting on Benevolent Society's grounds, 1900

File - Request to use Moore and Prince Alfred Park for circuses, 1956

File - Application for portion of Prince Alfred Park for circus at Easter, 1953.

File - Policy about allocation of site for circus each Easter, 1952

File - Request for Prince Alfred Park or Brisbane Street for annual circus season, 1928

Wirth's Circus elephants, Sydney, 1935

Print - Wirth's Hippodrome, Haymarket, 1919

Print - Construction of the Hippodrome, Haymarket, 1915

Print - Construction of the Hippodrome, Haymarket, 1915

Print - Construction of the Hippodrome, Haymarket, 1915

Print - Construction of the Hippodrome, Haymarket, 1915

Print - Construction of the Hippodrome, Haymarket, 1915

Print - Construction of the Hippodrome, Haymarket, 1914

High security at the Fruit Fly Circus, Prince Alfred Park Surry Hills, 2000

Elephant, Waratah Spring Festival parade, College Street Sydney, circa 1950s

Flying Fruit Fly Circus 1990

Flying Fruit Fly Circus, 1990

Spangles & sawdust: the circus in Australia/ Mark St. Leon

Circus: the Australian story/ Mark St Leon

Plans of the Hippodrome