Vintage Fairground Gatherings

Historic photographs of fairground crowds, carnival floats, and amusement rides, depicting lively entertainment from the past.

Outdoor circus performance

Image of the audience for the Wrest tent Theater St. Michel at the fair at Vredenburg in Utrecht.

Madrid. 02/21/1909. Carnival float competition. "The best of Tokyo", float of Messrs. Gómez and Jiménez, which won the prize of one thousand pesetas.

Image of the fair at Vredenburg in Utrecht.

People walk over the fairground and look at the ferris wheel

09/15/1908. Barcelona. A Charity Party. "Kermesses", dance and concert in the "American Park" to benefit the office of the Virgin of Bonanova.

02/02/1913. The second Day of Carnival. Appearance of the castellana during Yesterday's Carnival festival. -photo Alba.

Anefo photo collection. Circus Mikkenie. Circus Mikkenie. Exterior right half. November 10, 1948

Outdoor circus performance

Anefo photo collection. Circus Mullens Initiation H. Mass in new tent, led by Rector E. Hupperets. August 22, 1953

Char and artists disguised, interior of the nave, palace of industry and fine arts, Champs-Elysees, 8th arrondissement, Paris. Char and artists disguised, interior of the nave of the Palace of Industry and Fine Arts, Champs-Elysées, Paris (VIIIth Arr.) ". Anonymous photography. Aristotype. Before 1900.

03/18/1911. The Cinematographer's Hall "lo Rat Penat" during the rally held yesterday Tomorrow.

Image of a merry -go -round at the fair at Vredenburg in Utrecht.

THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (1940), directed by LUDWIG BERGER, WILLIAM CAMERON MENZIES, MICHAEL POWELL, ALEXANDER KORDA, ZOLTAN KORDA and TIM WHELAN.

Anefo photo collection. Entry of Louis Armstrong in Blokker I.V.M. The music festival / yellowed. May 10, 1959

Anefo photo collection. Music competition in Kerkrade. July 16, 1966. Kerkrade

Anefo photo collection. Commemoration of Philips Anniversary Eindhoven. May 16, 1951. Eindhoven

Rush, Columbia

Gilt and leather puppets performing shadow play in theater and musical ensemble (gamelan) in front, Java, Indonesia. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection, Puppet shows,Indonesia,Java,1900-1930.

Image of a merry -go -round at the fair at Vredenburg in Utrecht.

Plymouth Tercentenary Pageant, episode III, scene 1: dance of the Dutch cities , Anniversaries, Historical pageants. Plymouth Tercentenary Photographs

Anefo photo collection. Drive in cinema in Drouwen, Drente. 27 May 1969. Drenthe

Anefo photo collection. Dance group with angels Lobith. August 13, 1948. Lobith

Carnivals in Serbia. Serbia, "ten cents to see the fire-eater" or something like that is what the Serbian speiler yells at the carnival in Belgrade. The Serbs have their side-shows too including the snake-eater, and the elephant girl, to say nothing of the familiar fat lady, and enjoy them just as much as the small townfolks of the U.S. Although the Americans at the American Red Cross headquarters in Belgrade couldn't read the Russian lettering over the shows they couldn't tell what they were all about from the pictures accompanying the queer characters, August 1920

GENEVIÈVE (1953), directed by HENRY CORNELIUS.

Blancard, Hippolyte (1843 - D.1924), a fairground theater on the Vincennes course, 20th arrondissement, Paris (dummy title), 1890. Platinum draw. Carnavalet museum, history of Paris.

Image of a merry -go -round at the fair at Vredenburg in Utrecht.

Image of the fair at Vredenburg in Utrecht.

Jericho entertainment by the Palestine Broadcasting Service. 1940

Child Actor's Xmas Tree, N.Y.

05/01/1915. In the Apollo theater. A scene from "the boy from the Peñuelas", a very celebrated sainete by Arniches, with music by maestro Millán.

Glen Miller And His Band Strike Up One Of Their Favorite Tunes During A Performance For Men Of The 834Th Engineer Aviation Battalion Presented In The Sports Stadium At Nurnberg Sic; Prob. Nuremberg, Germany. {This Image Is Not Of Glenn Miller}

Photo collection prints Anefo Rousel. Series Print Anefo RVD Own Without Caption. Collection of photo collection prints Anefo Rousel, photo number 157-0070. 1956

Idle men attend the morning movies. There are three such movies in one block. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oklahoma , Oklahoma City, Oklahoma , Oklahoma County, Unemployed, Motion picture theaters, Depressions

Photo collection Government information service. Series Print Anefo RVD Own Without Caption. Collection Photo collection Government information service own, photo number 156-1234. 1956

Old Heidelberg (Cinema 1915). 1915. Photographs. Billy Rose Theatre Division

Trained animals lined up, with trainers, clowns and others, the Midway, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, USA, Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1893

Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the royal visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. Merry-go-round at the fair in Paramaribo. October 1, 1955. Paramaribo, Suriname

Seville, 05/07/1909. The floral games.. Appearance of the theater hall in San Fernando during the brilliant festival of the floral games.

'The Sokol Festival of 1938', (1947). Creator: Unknown.

Great concert in Sforza castle in Milan, Italy, June 14, 1896, drawing by R Griffi, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXIII, No 25, June 21, 1896.

Anefo photo collection. Ballet performance for patients Wilhelmina Gasthuis. August 5, 1952

NATALIE WOOD in THE GREAT RACE (1965), directed by BLAKE EDWARDS.

JULIE HAYDON in DAWN TO DAWN (1933), directed by JOSEF BERNE.

People having fun at Glen Echo Park amusement park, possibly the Fun House ca. between 1915 and 1936.

09/01/1919. Valladolid. In parties. 1.-The Dog Show. 2.-the Band contest in the Bullring.

Anefo photo collection. Arrival prince carnival and nuts of sugar tent. April 29, 1952

CLARK GABLE and VIVIEN LEIGH in GONE WITH THE WIND (1939), directed by GEORGE CUKOR and VICTOR FLEMING.

FIVE WEEKS IN A BALLOON (1962), directed by IRWIN ALLEN.

03/08/1920. Madrid at the Princess theater. "pilgrimage in the meadow of San Antonio de la Florida" in Tiempos de Goya, Presented by Aristocratic Young People at the party held to benefit those injured by the earthquakes in Mexico.

Convention in session, 3AM - Clark Demonstration

Image of the fair at Vredenburg in Utrecht.

Elliott v. Gosling, Wellington photographic postcards

Show on midway, Central Iowa 4-H Club fair, Marshalltown, Iowa 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

06/25/1972. Ix medieval theater festival.

Anefo photo collection. Concert of the Concertgebouw Orchestra in the RAI. Overview of the full room. June 16, 1961. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

First Lady Jacqueline Kennedys (JBK) 1st Musical Program for Youth, 4:00PM. An audience assembled under and outside of a large tent watches Dr. James Christian Pfohl conduct a performance of the Transylvania Symphony Orchestra from the Brevard Music Center in Brevard, North Carolina on the South Lawn of the White House, Washington, D.C. The performance for an audience of handicapped children is first in a series of u201cMusical Programs for Youth by Youth,u201d organized by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.

Elsevier photo collection. Scene 3rd company operetta "surcouf de kaper". 1928

08/31/1923. The pampas in Madrid. Company Argentina, which in honor of the press association gave its first performance last night at the Price theater.

Marionettes, genova, liguria, italy, 1920.

01/31/1910. The Dancers of "the Children of Écija" before the jury.

Image of a scene from, presumably the general rehearsal of, the open-air game with the theme of Cortez that was performed on a site on the Vossegatsedijk in Utrecht, at the celebration of the 59th anniversary of the Utrecht University (295th anniversary).

Anefo photo collection. Circus Mullens in Amsterdam. October 23, 1950. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

MARIO MORENO "CANTINFLAS" and DAVID NIVEN in AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (1956) -Original title: AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS-, directed by MICHAEL ANDERSON.

Concert, Central Park

Sideshow Performers, Classic Photography

08/01/1919. Burgos. In the bullfighting arena. A scene from the brilliant party organized by Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, in which the life of "the seven Infants of Lara" was reproduced.

LA TERANYINA (1990), directed by ANTONI VERDAGUER.

"A man who is worth his salt will work" - President Roosevelt at Dunsmuir, Cal., Stereo Card, Underwood & Underwood, 1903

Silver gelatin photograph showing a music group performing for a western slinging wedding in Silesia during the Emperor's homage in Vienna 1908, including instruments, performers, and ceremonial environment.

Ambulant theater Ambulant theater. Photography of Louis Green (1865-1924). Gelatin bromide on velvet paper. Between 1900 and 1906.

Franko Concert () at Polo Grnds

03/04/1916. Yesterday's Carnival party in Madrid. "Unstable balance", float presented by Messrs. Mendoza and Serrano, which won second prize.

Napoléon a 1927 epic silent French film directed by Abel Gance that tells the story of Napoleon's early years. On screen, the title is Napoléon vu par Abel Gance, meaning 'Napoleon as seen by Abel Gance'. The film is recognised as a masterwork of fluid camera motion, produced in a time when most camera shots were static. The cast was led by Albert Dieudonné as Napoleon

Baambrugger music association 'Crescendo' on the road.

Anefo photo collection. The Dutch Student Orchestra will rehearse three weeks in the well-known ruin church in Bergen led by the conductor Jan Brussen. The orchestra runs through the village. January 6, 1964. Bergen, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Eurovision broadcast from the Floriade m.M.v. The Utrecht Party Church led by Dr. Myrashow AntonowyTch. April 13, 1960

Gambling, Raffle, Drawing of the Lottery in Canton, 1910, China, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Asia

Fifty thousand people attending the concert in Villa Borghese and the first performance of Isabeau by Pietro Mascagni, Rome, Italy, photograph by Aldo Molinari, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXIX, No 27, July 7, 1912.

Anefo photo collection. Singing competition Leusden. July 30, 1946. Leusden

Alf Larsson as Nils Holgersson in Karlskrona.

The Gem Variety Theatre and dance hall, pioneer days in Deadwood C. 1890s

Ngati Tuwharetoa performance. From the album: The Lambton album gelatin silver prints, black-and-white prints

Anefo photo collection. NUNEN Shooting film Vincent van Gogh, devices under umbrella. September 12, 1955

WOODSTOCK (1970), directed by MICHAEL WADLEIGH.

Recklinghausen. UZ newspaper festival of the DKP. 1979

LUMIÈRE! (2016), directed by THIERRY FREMAUX.

DEU, Germany: The historical colour photos from the times of the 70s show events and people from politics, culture, trade unions, working life, medicine, etc. Cologne. Cologne Carnival 1965

Elsevier photo collection. Playtout exhibition. Westerspeeltuin. 1931. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Symphony under the stars at the Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, California, USA. circa 1940s

BJORN ANDRESEN in DEATH IN VENICE (1971) -Original title: MORTE A VENEZIA-, directed by LUCHINO VISCONTI.

Anefo photo collection. Assignment Press Service Circus Heros. June 19, 1966

Circus folks (EV007517_H)

07/17/1910. The sardana festival in Barcelona. The Dancers and the Audience that Attended the "Aplech" held in Vallvidrera.

Anefo photo collection. Entry of Victor Silvester in Blokker T.G.V. The Music Festival. May 7, 1959

Circus Midway Andrew Square South Boston Massachusetts, USA c. 1929

Anefo photo collection. Comics exhibition in Stedelijk Museum. 13 February 1962

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