Competition Collection

Oxford and Cambridge Chess Match, 19th century

Rifle fete at Ecclesbourne, near Hastings, 1860. Creator: W Thomas
Rifle fete at Ecclesbourne, near Hastings, 1860. The contest was chiefly among the members of the Cinque Ports Corps...The first prize was a Lancaster rifle, value ten guineas, which was won by Mr

A Trial Spin of the Cornell Crews on Cayuga Lake, 1906

Fencing in front of the President of the Republic, Palais de l Elysee, 1895. Artist: F Meaulle
Fencing in front of the President of the Republic, Palais de l Elysee, 1895. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 9th June 1895

Cyclist Anderson, 1910. Creator: Bain News Service
Cyclist Anderson, 1910.

Army rifle shooting, Olympic games, 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
Army rifle shooting, Olympic games, 1912. 5th Olympic Games, held in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1912.

The Belgian National Rifle Association at Brussels: the firing-point, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Belgian National Rifle Association at Brussels: the firing-point, 1865. Annual meeting '...to which English volunteers were also specially invited...[Illustration showing] the kind of boxes or

The Welsh National Eisteddfod at Aberystwith, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Welsh National Eisteddfod at Aberystwith, 1865. The annual congress of the students and amateurs of Welsh antiquities and literature...[was held] in a spacious

The Town Cup of the Royal Victoria Yacht Club, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Town Cup of the Royal Victoria Yacht Club, 1865. '...the cup...is a vase of embossed silver, on a pedestal, with the figure of a yachtsman leaning on a rudder

Meeting of the Belgian National Rifle Association at Brussels: general view of practice-ground, 1865 Creator: Unknown
Meeting of the Belgian National Rifle Association at Brussels: general view of practice-ground, 1865. Annual meeting '...to which English volunteers were also specially invited...No "wrong targets"

Meeting of the Belgian National Rifle Association at Brussels: the targets, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Meeting of the Belgian National Rifle Association at Brussels: the targets, 1865. Annual meeting '...to which English volunteers were also specially invited...No "wrong targets" can be made by

Sculling match for £250 between Kelley, Chambers, and Cooper...Eau Brink Cut, King's Lynn, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Sculling match for £250 between Kelley, Chambers, and Cooper, in the Eau Brink Cut, King's Lynn, [Norfolk], 1865. Engraving from a sketch by Robert Elwes

Sailing-barge on the Thames: rounding the Nore Light-ship, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Sailing-barge on the Thames: rounding the Nore Light-ship, 1865. 'The third annual sailing-barge match took place under the management of...the Thames

Dragon Cup of the St. George's Rifle Volunteer Corps, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Dragon Cup of the St. George's Rifle Volunteer Corps, 1865. 'This graceful little cup has been manufactured by Messrs. Ortner and Houle, St

Prize dogs from the exhibition at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Prize dogs from the exhibition at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, 1862. 'All sizes of dogs [upwards of 800 specimens] were represented...beginning at the top...[is] Canaradzo

Prizes and Prize-Winners of the Calcutta Volunteer Rifle Matches at Barrackpore, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Prizes and Prize-Winners of the Calcutta Volunteer Rifle Matches at Barrackpore, [India], 1865. Participants in '...competitive trials in skill as marksmen...The gentlemen grouped around this table

Prize horses at the Horse Show in the Agricultural Hall, Islington, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Prize horses at the Horse Show in the Agricultural Hall, Islington, 1865. 'We give (Nos. 1 and 2) the portraits of Quicksilver and Young Norfolk Phenomenon

The Daily Telegraph Prize shot for at Wimbledon, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Daily Telegraph Prize shot for at Wimbledon, 1865. 'The accompanying Illustration represents the prize given by the proprietors of the Daily Telegraph, value fifty guineas

Pair of donkeys in harness exhibited by Miss Burdett Coutts...Agricultural Hall, Islington, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Pair of donkeys in harness exhibited by Miss Burdett Coutts at the Mule and Donkey Show in the Agricultural Hall, Islington, 1865

The Ocean Yacht Match from Gravesend to Harwich...the Volante winning the Cutters' Prize, 1864. Creator: Smyth
The Ocean Yacht Match from Gravesend to Harwich on Saturday, June 4: the Volante winning the Cutters' Prize, 1864. The Volante, a cutter of 60 tons belonging to H. C

The National Rifle Association prize meeting at Wimbledon:...the Horatio Ross Prize, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The National Rifle Association prize meeting at Wimbledon:...the Horatio Ross Prize, 1865. '...for a combined performance of running, loading, and firing...The competitor

The National Rifle Association prize meeting at Wimbledon:...the Highland Games, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The National Rifle Association prize meeting at Wimbledon: diversions of the camp - the Highland Games, 1865. View of '...the Highland games of the London Scottish corps...which afforded so much

The National Rifle Association prize meeting at Wimbledon: Mr. Sharman...winner, Queen's Prize, 1865 Creator: Unknown
The National Rifle Association prize meeting at Wimbledon: Mr. Sharman, 4th West York Rifle Volunteers, winner of the Queen's Prize, 1865. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. Herbert Watkins

Arrivals for the Horse Show at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Arrivals for the Horse Show at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, [London], 1865. 'A magnificent pair of bay "Wimbushes" took the carriage-horse prize, beating Mr

Prize given by the editors of the "Spectator" to be shot for at the Wimbledon Rifle Meeting, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Prize given by the editors of the "Spectator" to be shot for at the Wimbledon Rifle Meeting, 1865. 'Our Engraving represents the design of the shield

Prize dogs of the second International Dog Show at the Islington Agricultural Hall, 1864. 'Every one of these dogs won a first prize in its own class

Prize pigeons and poultry at Bingley Hall, Birmingham, 1864. Creator: Harrison Weir
excellence, and with no less than 300 pigeon and 1677 poultry entries...Our pigeon group...begins with Mr. Shaw's German Letz, which won in class 124

Prize animals at the Smithfield Club Cattle Show, 1864. Creator: Harrison Weir
Prize animals at the Smithfield Club Cattle Show, 1864. Mr. John Overman's Southdown and Leicester wedders [or wethers - castrated male sheep]...Mr

Prize animals at the Smithfield Club Cattle Show, 1864. Creator: Harrison Weir
Prize animals at the Smithfield Club Cattle Show, 1864. Mr. J. W. Kirkham's shorthorn steer...[Kirkham] won the Smithfield silver cup for the best ox or steer in the yard!...Mr

Prize dogs at the recent show, Birmingham, 1862. Creator: Harrison Weir
Prize dogs at the recent show, Birmingham, 1862. Mr. H. R. Brailsford's Windham, the first prize retriever in "a class generally commended"...; Mr. F. H

Prize birds at the Poultry and Pigeon Show recently held at Birmingham, 1862. Creator: Harrison Weir
Prize birds at the Poultry and Pigeon Show recently held at Birmingham, 1862....no less than 1364 entries of poultry and 232 of pigeons came to this great feathered congress...Mr. T. H. D

Sailing-barge race on the Thames, 1864. Creator: Edwin Weedon
Sailing-barge race on the Thames, 1864. A novel kind of sailing-match...was that which took place on the Thames, on Friday week under the auspices of the Prince of Wales Yacht Club

Royal Victoria Yacht-Club Regatta: the Commodore's Cup, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Royal Victoria Yacht-Club Regatta: the Commodore's Cup, 1864. This cup...was manufactured by Messrs. London and Ryder, goldsmiths, of 17, New Bond-street

The Gathering of the Highland Clans at Braemar Castle, in the presence of the Prince and... 1864. Creator: Unknown
The Gathering of the Highland Clans at Braemar Castle, in the presence of the Prince and Princess of Wales, 1864. Engraving from a sketch by Mr

Before boat race, Columbian Naval Review, 1892 (i.e. 1893), 1893 April. Creator: Unknown
Before boat race, Columbian Naval Review, 1892 (i.e. 1893), 1893 April. Photo shows boat from navy of Brazil in front and rear; boat at right is probably from navy of France

Victorious Columbia at mooring in the horseshoe after race of Oct. 4, 1901... Creator: Unknown
Victorious Columbia at mooring in the horseshoe after race of Oct. 4, 1901, flying winning pennants, 1901 Oct 4

Shamrock II at the finish, Oct. 3, 1901, c1901 Oct 3. Creator: Unknown
Shamrock II at the finish, Oct. 3, 1901, c1901 Oct 3

Shamrock II & Columbia just after start, Oct. 1, 1901, 1901 Oct 1. Creator: Unknown
Shamrock II & Columbia just after start, Oct. 1, 1901, 1901 Oct 1

The Finish, Columbia on the line, Sept. 28, 1901, c1901. Creator: Unknown
The Finish, Columbia on the line, Sept. 28, 1901, c1901

Corinthian mid-summer series, Marblehead, 1901, 1901. Creator: Unknown
Corinthian mid-summer series, Marblehead, 1901, 1901

Constitution and Columbia, 1901. Creator: Unknown
Constitution and Columbia, 1901

Reliance before the start, Aug. 22, 03, 1903 Aug 22, c1903. Creator: Unknown
Reliance before the start, Aug. 22, 03, 1903 Aug 22, c1903

Reliance and Shamrock III coming for the line, Aug. 22, 03, 1903 Aug 22, c1903. Creator: Unknown
Reliance and Shamrock III coming for the line, Aug. 22, 03, 1903 Aug 22, c1903

Reliance, c1903. Creator: Unknown
Reliance, c1903

Dog show, East Hampton, Long Island, between 1933 and 1942. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Dog show, East Hampton, Long Island, between 1933 and 1942

Dog show, East Hampton, Long Island, between 1933 and 1942. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Dog show, East Hampton, Long Island, between 1933 and 1942

Dog show, East Hampton, Long Island, between 1933 and 1942. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Dog show, East Hampton, Long Island, between 1933 and 1942

Dog show, East Hampton, Long Island, between 1933 and 1942. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Dog show, East Hampton, Long Island, between 1933 and 1942

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