Prize Collection (page 7)

The Fothergillian Gold Medal of the Medical Society of London, 1857. Creator: Unknown
The Fothergillian Gold Medal of the Medical Society of London, 1857....the Fothergillian gold medal [was] awarded to Mr Edwin Canton, F.R.C.S

The Beaufoy Shakspearian Medal, 1854. Creator: Unknown
The Beaufoy Shakspearian Medal, 1854. Medal with bust of William Shakespeare, awarded to...the most successful competitor among the boys of Carpenter's or the London School

The International Exhibition - Prize Medal - obverse, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition - Prize Medal - obverse, 1862. Design by Maclise, made by Leonard C. Wyon. The ill effect of crowding the composition is particularly observable in the lion

Cross of St. George, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Cross of St. George, 1862. The prize jewel, or Cross of St. George...represents one of three which will be annually awarded to the three best shots in the contest...at Wimbledon in July

The International Exhibition - Prize Medal - reverse, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition - Prize Medal - reverse, 1862....the oak wreath, the corona civica, is perhaps a little heavy'. Inscription: Londini - Honoris Causa'

Winning the cup JLP01_08_065284
Peter Hipkin, captain of the Laing Sports Clubs 1st football team, being presented with the Senior Challenge Cup by V Ball, Vice-President of the London Commercial League

Dinner Gala Prize Giving Prizegiving Presentation
2012 GP2 Series Season Celebration "Le Boreas", River Seine, Paris, France 19th October 2012 Luiz Razia (BRA, Arden International). Portrait

Sir William Ramsay, Nobel Prize for Chemistry

W D B Creagh, boxer, prohibition message, probably 1920s

Goodshaw Prize Band

Hoover Vacuum Cleaner Window Display with a musical theme Date: 1948

The reverse of a Raphael Tuck & Sons postcard detailing information about this famous card publisher, information of the different types of card they published

Shell Motor Spirit Silver Trophy, Samuel Cody Archive
EARLY AVIATION PIONEERS - THE SAMUEL CODY ARCHIVE: The Shell Motor Spirit Silver Trophy, 1912, by Mappin and Webb, hallmarked London 1912, with fine model of Cody?s Flyer, Type No

Old Bleach Needlework Competition Advert
An advertisement promoting a £1000 prize competition for needlework, hosted by the Old Bleach Linen Co. Ltd. Date: circa 1921

Pappillion
A portrait painting of an unknown woman wearing a distinctive yellow dress, stood upon a black and white tiled floor. This artwork won a £10 prize in the Colour competition. Date: circa 1915

No. 4 Detachment, 3rd Middlesex Artillery Volunteers
The No. 4 Detachment of the Third Middlesex Artillery Volunteers, the winners of the Queen's prize at the recent artillery meeting at Shoeburyness, 1885

Stills from The Beauty Prize
The Beauty Prize (here captioned as The Beauty Contest') was a silent film from 1924, now lost. It starred Viola Dana (1897-1987). Date: 1924

Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre (1832-1916). Spanish engineer, playwright, politician and mathematician. Leading of the Spanish dramatist of the last quarter of the 19th century

Miss Collins
A portrait oil painting of Miss Gladys Neville Collins, daughter of trustee of the Public Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria, J. T. Collins. Date: circa 1925

Dr. Hamilton
A portrait oil painting of Dr. Hamilton, who is wearing a heavy long coat, with a white scarf, with a proud pose. Date: circa 1923

Professor Harrison Moore
A portrait oil painting of Australian lawyer and academic professor at the University of Melbourne, Sir William Harrison Moore

A Valley of the Tweed
Oil painting showing sunlight striking a landscape of hills and distant mountains. Awarded the Wynne Prize in 1921. Date: circa 1921

Lengthmen - Prize Length, Newport Division, 1943 - Newport, South Wales. The term Lengthsman was coined in the 18th century in a concept rooted in the Tudor Era as far back as War of the Roses

George Gale Prize Old Ale

Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR. 1 XV744 at St, Pancras
Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.1 XV744 (712007), of the Harrier Operational Conversion Unit, at St, Pancras Station coal-yard, for the 1969 Daily Mail Trans-Atlantic Air Race. Flown by Sqn. Ldr

Poster, Cycles Saving, Grand Premier Prix, Gold Medal, 13 Rue Corbeau, Paris. Safe enough to strap your baby onto the handlebars! Date: circa 1900s

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

Professor Elie Metchnikoff Iln Import 21 Dec
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Girls looking at a stall at Looe fair, Cornwall Date: 1930s

Panathenaic prize amphora, c. 510 BCE (clay)
7393888 Panathenaic prize amphora, c.510 BCE (clay) by Leagros Group (fl.525-500 BC) (attr. to); Height: 63.5 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873-1932) Brazilian aeronaut
530524 Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873-1932) Brazilian aeronaut by French School, (20th century); (add.info.: Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873-1932) Brazilian aeronaut: dirigibles and aeroplanes

Venice distributing honours, 1577 (fresco)
7294274 Venice distributing honours, 1577 (fresco) by Veronese, (Caliari, Paolo) (1528-88); Doges Palace, Venice, Italy; (add.info.: Venice distributing honours, 1577, Paolo Caliari)

Kaiser giving iron cross to aviators (photo)
683108 Kaiser giving iron cross to aviators (photo) by Bain, George Grantham - Bain News Service (1865-1944); (add.info.: The Iron Cross (German)

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