Scale Collection (page 7)

Model of Pergamum
Model of the city of Pergamum. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany

Size of People / Anatomy
The variations in Human Stature. The giant Winckelmeyr, measuring 8ft, 6", at the left; a new-born child to the right. Date: 1895

Social / Slum home 1921
A family of four at the bottom of the social scale Date: 1921

Suez Construction 4
Digging the cutting between the Sweet Water canal and Nefiche : giving some idea of the massive scale of the operation, most of which is done by manual labour. Date: 1863

Jockey / Tom Cannon 1885
Tom Cannon, jockey Date: 1885

Pea Tenderometer
Testing the tenderness of peas for canning with a machine called a Tenderometer. A metal blade is forced through a central container and the scale records the measurement. Date: 1950s

Mechanical Power 1827
A machinist demonstrates the scale of the new industrial machinery as he operates a huge vice. Date: 1827

Military / Training / German
German soldiers engaged in a variety of exercises - swinging from ropes to cross rivers, climbing on one anothers backs to scale walls, gymnastics &c. Date: circa 1850

Baalbek / Pillar
A fallen pillar, showing the massive scale of the Baalbek construction Date: 1880

London Docks - St Catherines and West India Docks - map/plan views Date: circa 1855

Memorial Organ, New City Hall, Portland, Maine, USA
Herman Kotzschmar Memorial Organ, New City Hall, Portland, Maine, USA, the gift of Cyrus H K Curtis, built in 1909, dedicated in 1912

Gold bricks on display, Lead, South Dakota, USA
Gold bricks on display at Lead, South Dakota, USA. The large Homestake Gold Mine was discovered in 1876. The gold bricks seen here were worth $125, 000 at the time

Scale-Finned Shad and European Anchovy
Scale-Finned Shad (another version of Alosa fallax or Twait Shad) and European Anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus). Date: 1865

Lepidopus caudatus, or Scabbard Fish, a species of cutlassfish, also known as Silver Scabbardfish, Frostfish, Beltfish and Scale-Foot. Date: 1863

Roman soldiers with shields, swords, helmets. One in scale-armor shirt with javelin.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal

Roman soldiers with scale armor, shield, leather armor, helmet, lance and war cloak.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal

Parthian cavalry rider and horse in full scale armor, and Sarmatian archer in scale armor.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of

Extinct plant fossils: scale tree and horsetail.. Handcolored lithograph from Dr. F.A. Schmidts Petrefactenbuch, published in Stuttgart, Germany, 1855 by Verlag von Krais & Hoffmann. Dr

Alpine ensign scale, Arctorthezia cataphracta.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

Why Englands Food is Safe, WW1
Why Englands Food is Safe, showing how the majority of food supplies come from countries who are not on the side of the enemy during the First World War. Date: 1914

Scale Bridge & Crummock Water, Lake District, Cumbria
Scale Bridge & Crummock Water, Lake District, near Keswick, Cumbria, England. Date: 1910s

WW1 - French Women working in Munitions Factory Date: 1916

Hat factory after fire in 1906, showing the scale of destruction after basic tidying up. Six weeks after the fire, production resumed. Date: 1906

Fire scene in hat factory middle rooms in June 1906 where the scale of damage at Battersbys Stockport premises can be seen. Oddly it appears some hats have survived the blaze, but very little else

Display with Glass Barriers
Hand coloured. Illustration of some kind of display with glass barriers, with a corner running down the centre of the image

WWI Poster, New scale of separation allowances
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, New scale of Separation Allowances for Soldiers Wives and Children... other dependents. Enlist Today and your dependents will be well provided for

Italian Alpini scale heights
With the aid of ropes and ice-axes, Italian Alpini troops scale a mountain face in the Tyrol in order to occupy the high ground and prevent Austrian attacks at vital points along the frontier

In the dim and speculative future. Prime Minister Asquith, dressed as a young maiden picks the petals from a daisy, thinking, This year - next year - sometime - !!

Paris, France - Modele Elephant pour La Place de La Bastille. Date: 1830

Paris, France - Bastille, Prieurs proposed monument. Date: 1881

Indicating scale, Leyland Metz fire engine
Indicating scale on a Leyland Metz fire engine, showing the elevation and extension of the adjustable ladder

Merryweather fire engine indicator scale for regulating the angle and extension of the ladder

Thousands have Answered the Nations Call, but you May be the One to Turn the Scale at a Critical Moment. do you Realize this. Poster

Two foldout Daily Mail Military Maps Numbers - WWI era
Two foldout Daily Mail Military Maps Numbers 1 and 2. No. 1 - The Franco-Belgian & German Frontiers, Scale 12 Miles to the Inch. No. 2 - Austro-German & Russian Frontiers, Scale 24 Miles to the Inch

Bridport War Memorial by G Gilbert Scott
Plan (scale 1/2 to 1 foot) of the Bridport War Memorial by G. Gilbert Scott, ARA, FRIBA. Commemorative Art

Daily Mail coloured map of part of the Western Front
Daily Mail coloured print of a map of part of the Western Front from Bethune and La Bassee in the North to Albert and Peronne in the South with Arras in the centre of the map

The defences of the village of Caestre
Scale 1/2500 of the defences of the village of Caestre - April 1918, showing 11 machine gun positions, trenches and barbed wire produced by 286681, E. North, 90th Field Coy, Royal Engineers

A week of food required for the German Army, WW1
A scale drawing giving an impression of the volume of food needed to feed the German Army for one week during the First World War compared to the spires of Cologne Cathedral. Date: 1914

New Zealand troops storm Le Quesnoy
New Zealand troops scale the walls of the French town of Le Quesnoy. In their last major action of the war, the New Zealanders successfully took the town that had been occupied by German forces since

French Air Force by G. H. Davis
The French Armee de l Air: latest types of fighter and bombing aircraft in large-scale production at the start of the Second World War

Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News cover - Goodwood
Front cover of the Goodwood Number of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News featuring a jockey in the weighing room prior to a race. Date: 1928

The Extinct Animals model-room at the Crystal Palace, Sydenh
These life sized models were based on the fossilised remains of the original animals, and allowed people to imagine their true scale. Date: 31st December 1853

The San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906
Cartoon showing a globe-headed American character nursing his bandaged head; a humorous look at the effects of the San Francisco earthquake on the American economy

DURLSTON GREAT GLOBE
The Great Globe at Durlston Head, near Swanage, Dorset, England. a remarkable large scale geographical sphere of the world, created for George Burt from Portland Stone. Date: 1887

Japan - Silk Industry - Gathering silkworms from egg paper
Japan - Silk Industry - Gathering the silkworms from the egg paper using a delicate feather brush. Date: circa 1909

WW2 - The Scales of Victory - Oil and Steel Output compared between the Free Labour of the British Commonwealth and the USA and the Slave Labour of Germany and her subject nations

Russian Street Lock Seller and Locksmith, his wares hanging across his chest. Date: circa 1901

Propeller and rudder of large ship
The propeller and rudder of mid-sized vessel, with a hardy dock worker demonstrating the scale of the thing. Date: circa 1920s

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