Pole Collection (#10)

View of Ainu village with ceremonial poles, 1908. Creator: Arnold Genthe
View of Ainu village with ceremonial poles, 1908

Un sorcier au Congo francais (Il porte en main l'insigne de ses fonctions... 1914. Creator: Unknown)
Un sorcier au Congo francais (Il porte en main l'insigne de ses fonctions: une queue d'elephant); L'Ouest Africain, 1914. From "Grande Geographie Bong Illustree", 1914

British Touring Car Championship
Anthony Reid (GBR) MG ZS qualified on pole for race 1. British Touring Car Championship, Rd9, Brands Hatch, England, 25-26 August 2002. DIGITAL IMAGE

Moses and the Brazen Serpent, 18th century. Creator: Francesco Fontebasso
Moses and the Brazen Serpent, 18th century

Formula One World Championship
Michael Schumacher(GER) Ferrari F310 gets pole position Hungarian Grand Prix, Hungaroring, 11th August 1996

Formula One World Championship
Mario Andretti (USA) Lotus qualified on pole but retired on lap 32 with clutch failure. USA Grand Prix, Watkins Glen, USA, 6 October 1968

Formula One World Championship
Ronnie Peterson (SWE) Lotus 72D claimed his first ever pole position but retired on lap six with a spin caused by a broken rear wheel. Brazilian Grand Prix, Interlagos, 11 February 1973. BEST IMAGE

Formula One World Championship
Jochen Rindt(AUT) Pole position in Brabham BT 26 Canadian GP, Mont Tremblant, 22 September 1968

Formula One World Championship
Pole sitter Michael Schumacher (GER) Ferrari F1 2001 would have won if it were not for the superior pace of his brother Ralf. Second place however netted six valuable World Championship Points

MotoGP
2008/07/12 - mgp - Round10 - Sachsenring -

DTM Championship 2004, Rd 6, Nrburgring, Germany
Gary Paffett (GBR), C-Klasse AMG-Mercedes, AMG-Mercedes C-Klasse, scored pole position. DTM, Rd6, Nurburgring, Germany. 30 July - 1 August 2004. DIGITAL IMAGE

Formula One World Championship
Rubens Barrichello (BRA) Ferrari took his third pole of the season. Hungarian Grand Prix, Budapest, 17 August 2002. DIGITAL IMAGE

A1 Grand Prix
Nelson Piquet Jnr (BRA) A1 Team Brazil will start from pole position. A1 Grand Prix, Rd1, Brands Hatch, England. Qualifying Day, Saturday 24 September 2005. DIGITAL IMAGE

DTM
Martin Tomczyk (GER) Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline Audi A4 DTM (2007) gives his thoughts on his pole position with TV-Interviewer Christina Surer. DTM, Rd9, Barcelona, Spain, 21-23 September 2007

A1 Grand Prix
Nelson Piquet Jnr (BRA) A1 Team Brazil will start from pole position. A1 Grand Prix, Rd1, Brands Hatch, England. Qualifying Day, Saturday 24 September 2005. DIGITAL IMAGE

Catch of the Day
Ali Khataw

DTM
Timo Scheider (GER), OPC Team Phoenix, celebrates scoring pole position. DTM Championship, Rd9, Zandvoort, Holland. 20-21 September 2003. DIGITAL IMAGE

Formula One World Championship
Rubens Barrichello (BRA) Ferrari F2003-GA took pole position and went on to win for the second time this season in the last race of the year

1977 Spanish Grand Prix
Jarama, Spain. 6-8th May 1977. Patrick Neve, March 761 Ford, 12th position. First race for Williams Grand Prix Engineering. Ref: 77ESP36. World Copyright: LAT Photographic

Formula One World Championship
Sixth placed Jo Siffert (SUI) took pole position in the Rob Walker Lotus 49B and led the race until a stop to repair a broken throttle linkage cost him two laps

German DTM Championship
Pole sitter Michael Bartels (GER) Opel with team chief Guenther Holzer (GER). Hockenheim, Germany. 6 October 2001. DIGITAL IMAGE

Formula One World Championship
Michael Schumacher (GER) Ferrari F1 2001 took pole position but had to accept second place in the race behind his brother Ralf. Canadian Grand Prix, Montreal, 10 June 2001. BEST IMAGE

British Formula Three Championship
Alvaro Parente (POR) Carlin Motorsport, Finished 1st race 2. British Formula Three Championship, Rds11&12, Castle Combe, England. 25-26 June 2005. DIGITAL IMAGE

On the Fence
Hanping Xiao

Three Cormorants and one Heron
George Digalakis

Storks are back again this year
George Digalakis

Non-Championship Formula One
Mario Andretti (USA) Lotus tucks into the champagne he won for securing pole position. He finished third in the race. Race of Champions, Brands Hatch, England, 15 April 1979

German pole axe and halberd from the late 15th century. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Altenecks Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt, 1889

Dance of the Powhatan Native Americans of Carolina within a circle of totem poles. (Based on Captain Whites drawing of the Algonquian dance in Virginia.) Handcoloured copperplate engraving by A

BAMBOO POLE CLIMBING, NAGA WARRIOR TRIBE, NAGALAND, NORTH EAST INDIA
India, Nagaland, Naga Warrior tribal feat of climbing Bamboo poles

Robert Falcon Scott and his Frys Cocoa and Chocolate supply
Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912), the English naval commander and explorer. A Captain in the Royal Navy, Scott led a number of expeditions to the Antarctic

Cuba, Havana Vieja, Cuban flag waving in the breeze

A characteristic Dinka attitude, Terrakekka to Aweil, Sudan, 1925 (1927). Artist: Thomas A Glover
A characteristic Dinka attitude, Terrakekka to Aweil, Sudan, 1925 (1927). A print from Cape to Cairo, by Stella Court Treatt, George G Harrap & Company Ltd, 1927

White storks nesting on wooden poles, Extremadura, Caceres, Spain

Storks nesting on wooden poles, Extremadura, Caceres, Spain

Storks nesting on poles in the Natural Monument Los Barruecos, Caceres, Spain

Woman on a boat checking freshly dyed fabric hanging from bamboo poles to dry. Lake Inle, Nyaungshwe Township, Taunggyi District, Shan State, Myanmar

Woman in a window checking freshly dyed fabric hanging from bamboo poles to dry on a house. Lake Inle, Nyaungshwe Township, Taunggyi District, Shan State, Myanmar

Poland, Lublin Voivodeship, Parczew County, Swan(Cygnus olor) with cygnet on the coast of the Czarne Lake

Poland, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Gdansk, Old Town, Twilight view of Long Market and City Hall

Formula One World Championship
Jean-Pierre Jarier (FRA) Lotus 79 took his third and final F1 pole position, but retired from a commanding lead of the race on lap 50 with a brake failure

International F3000 Championship
Guillaume Gomez (FRA) (front) and his DAMS team mate, pole sitter, Tarso Marques (BRA) Reynard 95D Cosworth collide and crash into the barriers at the start of the race

British Formula Three Championship
Pole sitter Jenson Button (GBR) Promatecme Dallara F399-Renault finished the race in fourth position. British Formula Three Championship, Rd 14, Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium, 26 September 1999

Sutton Motorsport Images Catalogue
Second place finisher Jim Clark (GBR) Lotus 25 leads the field away from pole at the start of the race. Formula One World Championship, German Grand Prix, Nurburgring, 4 August 1963

Gathering hasen-Qahatika, c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Gathering hasen-Qahatika, c1907. Woman using long pole to harvest cactus fruit, Arizona

For strength and visions-Apsaroke, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
For strength and visions-Apsaroke, c1908. Photograph shows an Apsaroke man, leaning back slightly, with strips of leather attached to his chest and tethered to a pole secured by rocks

Quiet waters-Yurok, c1923. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Quiet waters-Yurok, c1923. Yurok man standing on rock ledge holding fishing line in one hand and pole down into the water below with the other hand

Gilyak fishermen, 1865-1871. Creator: VV Lanin
Gilyak fishermen, 1865-1871. This album contains 154 photographs taken in the second half of the 1860s and 1870s by a local photographer from the Far East, V. V. Lanin. The merchant V. P

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