Poole's Myriorama! : a story of travelling panorama showmen /
Powell, Hudson John.
Bradford on Avon : ELSP,
2002.
Drawing strongly on contemporary sources and illustrated with over 50 pictures this book provides an authoritative account of the history of the showmen and their contemporaries. It maps the history of the spectral opera shows developed by the Poole brothers and Anthony Young.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Moses Gompertz and the first Poole showmen - The "real" M. Gompertz and Anthony Young - Poole & Young and Young & Poole stage their ghost shows - Gompertz has a ghost show and Poole & Young go from strength to strength - The deaths of Charles and George Walter Poole - Messrs. Strange & Wilson - Popular panoramas and dioramas - The largest panorama and diorama proprietors in the world - The five brothers - Charles W. Poole's other family - Agents, advertising and the mechanics of the panorama - The decline of the myriorama - Appendix 1: Panorama and phantasmagoria entertainment advertised in the Cheltenham Looker-on 1840-1910 - Appendix 2: Shows associated with Moses Gompertz and the Poole showmen 1837-1929 - Appendix 3: Notes for "Trafalgar."
Drawing strongly on contemporary sources and illustrated with over 50 pictures this book provides an authoritative account of the history of the showmen and their contemporaries. It maps the history of the spectral opera shows developed by the Poole brothers and Anthony Young.
Poole's Myrioramas
Traveling theater
Panoramas