Athlete Gallery

Girl Guide Athlete Badge, 1923 (colour litho)

473023 Girl Guide Athlete Badge, 1923 (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Girl Guides and Boy Scouts have a similar scheme of badges; the athletic badge showing a figure skipping is one of the most popular awards and involves tests over two months in skipping, jumping, relay races, breathing and balance control; illustration from the Scout Series of cigarette cards produced by Ansties Gold Flake Cigarettes;
); English, out of copyright

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zoopraxiscope disc showing men boxing, 1893 (litho)

3121792 zoopraxiscope disc showing men boxing, 1893 (litho) by Muybridge, Eadweard (1830-1904); Private Collection; (add.info.: The zoopraxiscope is an early device for displaying motion pictures. Created by photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge in 1879, it may be considered the first movie projector. The zoopraxiscope projected images from rotating glass disks in rapid succession to give the impression of motion. The stop-motion images were initially painted onto the glass, as silhouettes. A second series of discs, made in 1892-1894, used outline drawings printed onto the discs photographically, then colored by hand. Some of the animated images are highly complex, featuring multiple combinations of sequences of animal and human movement;
The device appears to have been one of the primary inspirations for Thomas Edison and William Kennedy Dickson's Kinetoscope, the first commercial film exhibition system;); Prismatic Pictures ; English, out of copyright

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Queen Alexandra handing a special cup to Dorando to commemorate his great effort to win

JHL392601 Queen Alexandra handing a special cup to Dorando to commemorate his great effort to win the Olympic marathon in July, 1908 (b/w photo) by Grant, Thomas E. & Horace Grant (20th Century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Alexandra of Denmark (1844-1925), Queen of the United Kingdom 1901-10 as consort of Edward VII; Dorando Pietri (1885-1942), Italian athlete; the marathon was from Windsor to Shepherd's Bush (26 miles, 385 yards) and Dorando ran the race in 2 hours, 54 minutes; he was eventually disqualified for having help to finish the race;); British, out of copyright

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