Ambition Collection

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Peary and Cook dispute over the North Pole
Robert Peary and Frederick Cook dispute over who reached the North Pole first -- but the real question is whether either of them got there at all

Queen Mary surprising Courtenay and Princess Elizabeth
Queen Mary I surprising Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon, and Princess Elizabeth. Although they were all related as second cousins

Sydney Girls High School
A photograph of Sydney Girls High School. THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH Yesterday??the school and playground of our parents. To day?

Michael Foot and Tony Blair, British Labour politicians
Michael Foot (Michael Mackintosh Foot, 1913-2010), British Labour politician and writer, Leader of the Opposition 1980-1983, CND supporter

Cartoon, Poor Blabby has been given no office
Cartoon, Poor Blabby (Henry Labouchere, Liberal MP) has been given no office. And he wanted it badly, too! 1886

Illustration, Ambition - climbing to reach a pig on a pole. first published 1838

Some Clerical Types by John Kendal, The Master Builder. 1901

Miss Cotter Ludey, Managing Director of a London business
Miss Cotter-Ludey, who started life as a typist, is became managing director of a successful London business with big connections abroad

Alger Seeks Inspiration Date: 1950

Cartoon, A Red Study (Cardinal Manning)
Cartoon, A Red Study -- HENRY EDWARD MANNING, Cardinal Manning. Date: 1875

Duke of Buckingham and Richard, Duke of Gloucester
The Duke of Buckingham entreating Richard, Duke of Gloucester (soon to be King Richard III), to accept the crown. 1483

Publius Valerius Publicola destroys his own house
Publius Valerius Publicola, a Roman Consul, to dissipate suspicion of his ambitions, destroys his own splendid house on top of the Velian Hill - an instance of Roman high-mindedness and self-sacrifice

Cartoon, Randolph Churchill, British politician
Cartoon, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill (1849-1895), British politician - Little Randolph and the greasy pole of politics

Thoughtforms - 20, 21
20 - High Ambition 21 - Selfish Ambition Date: 1905

Cartoon, Broad Bottom Drones storming the Hive, Wasps, Hornets & Bumble Bees joining in the Attack, by James Gillray. Showing leading politicians (both those in power and those in opposition)

Cartoon, British Tars, towing the Danish Fleet into Harbour; the Broadbottom Leviathan trying to swamp Billys old Boat, & the little Corsican tottering on the Clouds of Ambition, by James Gillray

Suffragette Big Ben Votes for Women. Two Suffragettes have stormed the tower which houses Big Ben. One has unfurled her VFW flag while the other is peering through the clock face

Master Quack the duckling sets off
Off to see the World -- Master Quack the duckling sets off, leaving his brothers and sisters behind. Date: 1912

French views of German ambitions, WW1
A fold-out item expressing French views of German ambitions during the First World War. At the centre, the French cockerel crows, proclaiming the dawn of liberty

Lord Curzons Departure from Bombay
Lord Curzon described India as the dream of my childhood, the fulfilled ambition of my manhood. Here he is shown leaving from Bombay on 18th November 1905. Date: 4th November 1911

Jcp Bonaparte / Punch 1879
JOSEPH-CHARLES-PAUL BONAPARTE Prince Napoleon, nicknamed Plon-Plon, feeling sure that he can fill his great ancestors boots

Girl and Coronet
CONTEMPLATIONS UPON A CORONET - an actress at her dressing-table aspires to better her condition by marrying a peer. (Many did.)

Fable / King & Shepherd
THE SHEPHERD AND THE KING A fable about ambition: the king thinks the shepherd wise, and makes him a judge, whereupon the shepherd loses his wisdom through vanity

Competing for Pig
Country bumpkins compete for a sucking pig fixed to the top of a greasy pole

Cartoon / Fox on Elephant
CARLO KHANs TRIUMPHAL ENTRY INTO LEADENHALL STREET Fox as an Indian astride an elephant with the face of Lord North heralded by Edmund Burke A satire on lofty ambition

Eleanor of Gloucester
Eleanor Cobham, Duchess of Gloucester, accused of practising magic to help her husband Humphrey to the throne, does public penance in the streets of London

Coriolanus banished from Rome
The Roman general, Gaius Marcius Coriolanus, is banished from Rome because of his arrogance, and suspicion concerning his political ambitions

King Edward the Martyr
EDWARD THE MARYTR King of England (reigned 975-978), assassinated, possibly on the command of his stepmother, Aelfthryth, ambitious for her son Aethelred II

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