Contest Collection (page 4)

Official programme for the Doncaster Aviation Contest, 15-22 October 1909 at Doncaster Aerodrome. Date: 1909

A timekeeper and his apparatus: an official of the American Automobile Contest Board

Boat tilting in medieval times
Boat tilting contest in medieval times 15th Century

Spain (1878). Barcelona. First European typographic
" Spain (1878). Barcelona. First European typographic contest (30th May, 1878). Published in " La Ilustraci󮠅 spa񯬡 y Americana" (Spanish periodical). Engraving."

Music contest between Apollo and Marsyas. 320 BC. Hellenistic art. Relief on marble. GREECE. Athens. National Museum of Archaeology

Ice-skating race in Littleport (Cambridgeshire). 1891. Contest at the arrival to the post between J. Smart and T. Wells

Kitchen contest for young servants (1931). Illustration
" Kitchen contest for young servants (1931). Illustration by Achille Beltrame for the " Domenica del Corriere". Engraving."

Teddy and Cuddly. Comic strip from Jack and Jill (29 May 1976)

Wartburg Contest
Contest of the minnesangers at the Wartburg, Germany, to determine the Mastersinger Date: 13th century

36 Area Sports Meeting at Woodford Wells, Essex - Long Jump competition

Slippery pole sack fighting at a London Fire Brigade sports event

Cover design, Circuit of Britain Programme
Cover design, official programme issued by the Royal Aero Club for the Circuit of Britain 1010 Miles Air Race for the Second 10, 000 Daily Mail prize

Amateur contest, July 23rd - Du Page County centennial, Warrenville. Poster showing a stylized drawing of a woman singing. Date between 1936 and 1939

Harmonica contest on the mall, Central Park Final championship. Poster announcing final championship of harmonica contest, showing boy playing harmonica. Date 1936 or 1937

Attention boys and girls - $250. 00 in prizes - miniature hom
Attention boys and girls - $250.00 in prizes - miniature home building contest... Poster is text only. Date between 1936 and 1940

Amateur contest for children Final eliminations, Sept. 24, 1936. Poster announcing amateur piano contest, showing two girls playing piano. Date 1936

Senior amateur music contest On the mall, Central Park : Sept. 29 - 1936 8:15 p.m. Poster announcing musical contest in Central Park, showing tuba and musical notation. Date 1936

George M. Patchen, Brown Dick and Millers Dansel: in their splendid trotting contest for a purse of $500 - over the Union Course L.I. July 7th 1859. Date c1859

Fresco of the Singers Contest in the Sangersaal, Wartburg, Thuringia, Germany. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Spectators at beauty contest held during July 4th celebration at Salisbury, Maryland. Date 1940 July

Boy watching miners contest at Labor Day celebration, Silverton, Colorado. Date 1940 Sept

Senior amateur musical contest On the mall, Central Park. Poster announcing musical contest in Central Park, showing man playing a guitar and harmonica. Date 1936

Greenlanders singing combat, c. 1800
Natives of Greenland gather outdoors for a singing contest. Date: c. 1800

Two aspiring musical comedy artistes, London
Minter and Osborn of Manchester, contestants in the 13th Encore Competition staged in Collins Music Hall, Islington, London

John Ennis. The Celebrated Pedestrian. Born at Richmond Harbour, County Longford, Ireland, June 4th 1842. Height 5 ft. 8 ins. Weight 150 lbs

Eating Spaghetti in Italy
Eating Spaghetti in Naples, Italy - a small crowd gathers to watch two Italian boys and an older man ( Neopolitan types ) eating a plate of spaghetti on the street. Date: circa 1910s

Brazilian Beauty Queen
A camera woman films a close- up of the winner of a beauty contest held at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America. Date: 1930s

Hunting-horn contest at the Horse and Hound Ball
Competitors rehearsing in the hunting-horn contest at the Horse and Hound Ball at Grosvenor House in London. Date: 1951

HMS Contest, British destroyer, WW1
HMS Contest, British Acasta-class destroyer, launched 1913, served during the First World War, torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat in the Western Approaches, 1917. Date: 1914-1918

1950s Beauty Contest
Beauty contest, Miami, Florida, USA, 1954 Date: 1950s

Beauty Contest 1929
The forty-four contestants in the Miss World competition at Galveston, Texas. Date: 1929

Town Crier / Contest
A contestant from St. Columb, Cornwall at the Town Criers Contest held in Southampton, Hampshire. Date: 1950s

Bayard at Garigliano
BAYARD AT GARIGLIANO During contest between France and Aragon for the kingdom of Naples, Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, defends the bridge of Garigliano Date: 1501

Miss Estonia
The glamourous Miss Estonia

Ram fighting - India
Two rams lock horns in a sporting arena, India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Disqualified! by Henry Rountree
An illustration of a dog contest moments after a British Bulldog has stolen the judges bowler hat

Homing Pigeon Contest at the Alexandra Palace, 1875
Engraving showing a number of scenes from the Great Homing Pigeon Contest, held at the Alexandra Palace, London, 1875

Fighting at Konowice
Insurgents and Russians contest the railway bridge at Konowice, on the main line to Warsaw

Grenade-throwing contest
A grenade-throwing contest in regimental sports at Chatham in Kent, 1915

Sumo wrestling
A sumo wrestling contest taking place in Japan, watched by a large crowd of spectators

Beauty Contest 1956
A beauty contest in Cliftonville, near Margate, Kent

Beauty Contest 1956
A beauty contest in Cliftonville, near Margate, Kent. Date: 1956

Wilhelm II Toboggan 1910
A brochure design for the Kaiser Wilhelm II toboggan contest at Davos, Switzerland

Ski Jumps at Piedmonte
A contest at Limone Piedmonte, Italy

Naval Battle of Genova
The contest between France and the Empire for Italy is conducted at sea as well as on land : at Genova (Genoa) the French win a duel of galleys with a Spanish vessel

Balloon Contest 1880
Airborne over central London - participants in the contest held by the Balloon Society of Great Britain

Muses and Magpies
The Muses are challenged by the nine daughters of Pieros to a singing contest; but the talentless females are sadly out-sung and are turned into magpies for their presumption

German Medieval Archery
A procession accompanies an archery contest in Germany

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