Prize Collection (page 3)

Kenya - East Africa - Two Italian Elephant Hunters and the sad sight of their prize'. Date: circa 1910s

Henri Farman - Flight of One Kilometre 1908
British-French pilot Henri Farman winning the Deutsch-Archdeacon prize of 50, 000 francs at Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. For the successful flight of an aircraft heavier than air

Henri Farman (1874 - 1958), British-French aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer. Appearing on the front cover of ?The Illustrated London News

Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and communist politician
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), Chilean poet and Communist Party politician, previously named Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. Date: circa 1960s

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Russian novelist, dramatist and historian, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970. Date: circa 1940s

Mikhail Sholokhov, Soviet Russian novelist
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (1905-1984), Soviet Russian novelist, winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize for Literature. Best known for his novel, Quiet Flows the Don. Date: circa 1960s

Desmond Tutu, South African activist and clergyman
Desmond Tutu (The Most Rev Dr Desmond Mpilo Tutu, b 1931), South African activist and Christian clergyman. He was the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa

Linus Pauling, American chemist, peace activist and writer
Linus Carl Pauling (1901-1994), American chemist, peace activist, author and educator, winner of two Nobel Prizes, one for Chemistry in 1954 and one for Peace in 1962

John Ogdon, British concert pianist, with Nikita Khrushchev
John Ogdon (1937-1989), British concert pianist, shaking hands with the Soviet Russian premier Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971)

Henry Kissinger, American politician and diplomat
Henry Alfred Kissinger (b 1923), German-born American political scientist, diplomat, 56th US Secretary of State 1973-1977. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 for his role in US foreign policy

Samuel Beckett, Irish playwright, novelist and poet
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish avant-garde playwright, novelist and poet. Photographed in the year he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Date: 1969

Harry Hawker (1889 - 1921), the pilot and passenger attempt to win the Daily Mail £5000 prize, round Britain. Unfortunately on 27th August the machine fell into to the sea of a height of about

Visitors (on right) to the Christmas Cattle Show at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, admiring a prize winning bull. Date: 1883

Marchese Guglielmo Marconi (1874 -1936), Italian inventor who revolutionised the world of communications with his wireless invention

Guglielmo Marconi (1874 - 1937), Italian inventor, Marconi, born 1874, who revolutionised the world of communications with his wireless invention

Marchese Guglielmo Marconi (1874 - 1934), Italian inventor, who revolutionised the world of communications with his wireless invention

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Girls looking at a stall at Looe fair, Cornwall Date: 1930s

Ettie Williams as Lieutenant Wren in The Queens Prize Date: 1890s

Page from the Illustrated London News, 14th June 1845, featuring Ascot prizes the Royal Hunt Cup, the Emperors Cup, and the Queens Vase

Ascot prize - The Emperors Cup
Amongst the Ascot prizes for 1845 is the Emperors Cup, a gift of the Emperor of Russia on his 1844 visit to Queen Victoria

Musical comedy, The Medal and the Maid, song, She ought to have a prize for that, music by Sidney Jones, words by Charles H Taylor. Simon Pentweazle (Mr J Robert Hale)

Bjornstjerne Bjornson
A portrait of Bjornstjerne Bjornson (1832-1910). A Norwegian writer and winner of the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry

Standard poodle, Ch Leighbridge Catmint, with trophies and rosettes. Date: 1978

Ayam jallak, Malay game cock, Gallus gallus domesticus. Chromolithograph by Vincent Brooks Day & Son after an illustration by a native Chinese artist rom Lewis Wrights The Illustrated Book of

Golden-pencilled Hamburghs, cock and hen, Gallus gallus domesticus. Bred by Henry Beldon and cup winner at Crystal Palace 1871

Creve-coeur breed, endangered
Creve-coeur or crevecoeur breed chickens, cock and hen, Gallus gallus domesticus. Endangered French breed from Crevecoeur-en-Auge, Normandy. Bred by R. B

Plymouth Rock chickens, Sir Thomas and Irene, cock and hen, Gallus gallus domesticus. Bred by Mrs. Ainsworth and first and second at Birmingham 1886

Black frizzled fowl, cock and hen, Gallus gallus domesticus. Bred by J. W. Ludlow and third prize in any variety class at Oxford 1872

Sultan fowls, Gallus gallus domesticus. Chromolithograph by Vincent Brooks Day & Son after an illustration by J.W. Ludlow from Lewis Wrights The Illustrated Book of Poultry, Cassell, London, 1890

Gold-laced bantam and silver-laced bantam cock and hen, Gallus gallus domesticus. Bred by Matthew Leno and winner of first prizes at Crystal Palace and Birmingham 1871

Guinea fowls, helmeted guineafowl, Numida meleagris. Property of J. W. Ludlow. Chromolithograph by Vincent Brooks Day & Son after an illustration by J.W

Varieties of game bantams bred by W. F. Entwistle. Brown reds, first prize at Leeds 1886, black reds, cup at Windsor 1886, duckwings, cup at Windsor 1885, and piles, cup at Birmingham 1885

Rose-combed Dorking cock, Gallus gallus domesticus, John Martins Champion, cups at Stroud and Newport 1870, Cheltenham Southampton and Crystal Palace 1871, Dublin 1872

Partridge cochin cock, Gallus gallus domesticus, E. Tudmans Talbot, first prize at Birmingham 1870, Kendal 1871. Chromolithograph by Vincent Brooks Day & Son after an illustration by J.W

Pile game, cock and hen. Bred by Joseph Colgrove. Cockerel first prize at Crystal Palace and Birmingham 1886. Hen first prize at the Dairy Show 1885

Brown-breasted red game birds, Gallus gallus domesticus, bred by C. W. Brierley. The Statue, winner of the challenge cup at Birmingham 1886 and Little Queen, winner of the cup at Liverpool 1887

Silver Pencilled Hamburgh cock and hen, Gallus gallus domesticus, H. Pickles pair, cock first and cup at Birmingham 1871 and hen first at Kendal

White leghorns or Livorno cock and hen, Gallus gallus domesticus. From birds sent over specially for portraiture by Mr. Simpson, Treasurer of the New York State Poultry Society

Dark Brahma pullet, Gallus gallus domesticus, Lewis Wrights Psyche, first prize at Birmingham 1871. Chromolithograph by Vincent Brooks Day & Son after an illustration by J.W

Buff cochin hen, Gallus gallus domesticus. Chromolithograph by Vincent Brooks Day & Son after an illustration by J.W. Ludlow from Lewis Wrights The Illustrated Book of Poultry, Cassell, London, 1890

A little boy called Rob poses for a photograph wearing a first prize-winning costume, which presumably is Dick Whittington, since he is carrying a black cat. Date: 1909

Promotional voucher, Daz Washing Powder, 5d off a large or giant packet, July 1963. 1963

Claude Grahame-White, English pioneer of aviation, in April 1910 Grahame-White attempted to win the Daily Mail newspaper prize of 10, 000, to fly across England from London to Manchester in 24 hours

Mrs Herrings Silver Tabby cat Lady Godiva, who won 1st prize at the Crystal Palace Cat Show. 1892

Miss Simpsons Blue Persian cat Bounce, who won 3rd prize at the Crystal Palace Cat Show. 1892

Music cover, The Sewing Machine, sung at London and provincial concerts by Fred Buckingham and Fred Callingham and the author, Frank Bell circa 1860

Waterloo Railway Station, London 1883
Metropolitan Prize Puzzles, no.4, Waterloo Railway Station, London. Date: 1883

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