Giant Collection (page 3)

Ivan Markoff, a Russian cossack giant, early 20th century
Ivan Markoff, who was famous as a Russian cossack giant in the early 20th century. Markoff is seen in London where the caption says he was being fitted for a new suit. He was reputed to be 9ft tall

Harpy, griffin, satyr, giant, seahorse and Nereid
Mythical creatures: harpy, griffin, satyr, giant or Titan, seahorse and Nereid or Triton. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Christiane Henriette Dorothea Westermayr from Friedrich Johann

YOUNG GIANTESS PLAYS
Travellers in the German countryside suddenly find that they have become the playthings of a young giantess

Advertisement for Kerrs thread, Newark, New Jersey, USA
An advertisement for Kerr & Co thread of Newark, New Jersey, USA. Keep your eye on Kerrs Thread. Sure to Please. Showing a young lady sitting on a giant reel of thread

Watching Election Result
Londoners watch the election results as they are shown on giant screens erected in Trafalgar Square

Giant of Trapani
The skeleton of this huge gentleman was found at Trapani, Sicily, by Boccatio. He measured 400 feet (121m) though this would not be anatomically possible

Patrick Cotter O Brien, the Bristol Giant, height 8 feet 7 inches, who died in 1806 at the age of 46 Date: circa 1806

Comic postcard, Woman at seaside with stick of rock
Comic postcard, Woman at the seaside with a large stick of rock (in English and French) Date: 20th century

The Grizzly giant, sequoia tree, Maarispos Grove, California, men and horses in front of the tree. Vintage 19th century photograph

Fashionable gentleman in coat, era of Marie Antoinette
Fashionable gentleman in coat, breeches and boots with cane and hat, era of Marie Antoinette. Copperplate etching by Auguste Etienne Guillaumot from Costumes et coiffures du XVIIIe siecle

Skeleton of an extinct Rhamphorhynchus genus
Complete skeleton of an extinct long-tailed pterosaur, Rhamphorhynchus genus. Illustration from Wilhelm Bolsches Das Leben der Urwelt, Prehistoric Life, Georg Dollheimer, Leipzig, 1932

Lizard varieties
Lava lizard, Tropidurus torquatus, desert horned lizard, Phrynosoma platyrhinos, stellion, Stellagama stellio, Sudan plated lizard, Gerrhosaurus major, giant ameiva, Ameiva ameiva

Kraken attacking a fishing boat off the coast of Angola
Kraken or giant cuttlefish attacking a fishing boat off the coast of Angola. After a description by Pierre Denys de Montfort in his Natural History of the Mollusca

Great sea serpent seen off the coast of Greenland in 1734, Scoliophis atlanticus. From a description by Hans Egede. Steel engraving by W.H

The tall Tehuelche people of Patagonia exchanging gifts with short European colonist. The Native Americans wear feather headdresses and fur cloaks

Pride of India giant or crepe-myrtle, Lagerstroemia speciosa. Chromolithograph after a botanical drawing by Emily Eden from her Flowers from an Indian Garden: Second Series: Hope, Breidenbach Co

First published illustration of a dodo by van Neck, 1601
Facsimile of plate 2 of Jacob Cornelis van Necks Voyage, 1601, showing Dutch sailors fishing on Mauritius, dodo bird (2) and extinct giant tortoise, Cylindras inepta (1)

Boxing match, Jack Johnson v Jess Willard, Havana, Cuba
Jack Johnson (1878-1946), nicknamed the Galveston Giant, African-American world heavyweight champion boxer, 1908-1915, in the world heavyweight title match (in Havana)

Harolds Club at night, Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada, USA
Harolds Club at night with its giant ceramic mural, Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada, USA, with the Reno Club on the right. Date: 1949

Boeing B-52H Stratofortress 60-0008
United States Air Force - Boeing B-52H-135-BW Stratofortress 60-0008 (msn 464373)of the 19th Bombardment Wing, with a humorous caption on the nose: - Dear Rocky, not to win is a very Bad Thing

Jack and The Beanstalk by Margaret Tarrant
A scene from Jack and The Beanstalk picturing Jack and his mother standing at the bottom of the beanstalk looking up at the giant falling down the beanstalk and head first into the garden below

The Giant Walnut Tree - Bossington, Exmoor, Somerset
The Giant Walnut Tree - Bossington, Exmoor, Holnicote Estate, Somerset. Date: circa 1910s

French April Fools Card - Flying Fish Aeroplane sending Best Wishes.....!! Date: circa 1909

Giant Redwood - Yosemite National Park
California Redwood Tree " Wawona" Mariposa Big Tree Grove, California, USA - in the southernmost part of Yosemite National Park. 1912

Western Australia - Giant Nest

Giant tortoise at a zoo

Giant tortoises in a zoo, possibly Regents Park Zoo, London, Victorian period

Crazy Whist playing cards scorecard, four characters carrying giant images of the four suits

Advert, Co-Operative Tea is filling the Nation's Teapot

WW2 - Mr Penny At War
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 children's story book, Mr. Penny At War, written by Maurice Moiseiwitsch. The image portrays an older Home Guard serviceman carrying his bayonet rifle

Giant Beeches, New Forest, Hampshire - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

White Star Line, assorted souvenir brochures and card
White Star Line, RMS Majestic, souvenir promotional brochures including Souvenir of a Visit to a Giant White Star Liner and RMS Ionic list of dates for posting card

Poster, Liverpool Overhead Railway - round trip of the docks and giant ocean liners Date: circa 1930

Gulliver kisses the Queen of Brobdingnag's hand Date: 1900

Chang Woo Gow (Chang Yu Sing), Chinese giant
Chang Woo Gow (Chang Yu Sing, 1841-1893), celebrated Chinese Giant who toured Britain. He was 7 feet and 8.75 inches (235.5 cm) tall. Date: late 19th century

The Two-Headed Welsh Giant, by Arthur Rackham
The Two-Headed Welsh Giant, book illustration by Arthur Rackham Date: 1916

The Scottish Giant, by Arthur Rackham
The Scottish Giant, book illustration by Arthur Rackham Date: 1916

The Stack Yard
This oil painting shows some fam houses beside three giant haystacks under a stark, blue sky, a figure in black is standing in the shadow. Date: circa 1922

A Sunny Spot In Italy
A landscape oil painting of a young woman standing in the shade, at the base of some giant haystacks, accompanied with some chickens pecking at the ground, in an Italian countryside. Date: circa 1919

Lever Brothers Vim Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Lever Brothers Limited, promoting Vim, a cleaner for metal and even woodwork, such as utensils, taps, floorboards, baths etc

The Haystack
A landscape painting of a very large haystack, standing beside a giant mushroom shaped tree, on what is most likely an English countryside. Date: circa 1917

The Stack
A landscape lithograph of some giant haystacks placed among a group of trees at the outskirts of a woodland. Date: circa 1916

A Catch of Arapaima Fish
A catch of arapaima fish. Native to the Amazon and Essequibo basins of South America, they are among the world's largest freshwater fish. Date: 1924

Rules for The Ivory Castle Board Game, based around dental health, produced by Gibbs Dentifrice toothpaste Date: 1935

Giant Trees
A landscape pencil drawing showing multiple trees, giant in statue, with knotted trunks, situated on a plain Australian countryside. Date: circa 1925

The Giant
A landscape pencil drawing, dominated by the presence of a very large, gnarled tree with distinctive branches. Date: circa 1925

North Sea tuna
Crew members of the trawler Silver Line pose with their haul of five giant tuna fish, caught 120 miles out from Scarborough. Date: 1939

Giant sawfish, hung up by a mast, Florida, United States. Captioned, A Leviathan of the Deep: The Largest Fish Ever Caught On Light Tackle'

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