Enormous Collection (page 2)

Pipes Taken Thru Desert Date: 1950

Captain Steers Boat Date: 1950

HAULING WOOD, MINNESOTA
hauling wood in Minnesota. This enormous stack of logs is piled (how, one wonders ?) onto a sledge which is dragged over the ice by a team of four horses. Date: 1893

HOW MANY CHAIRS?
A disgruntled looking woman wearing an enormous crinoline is asked by the chair proprietor how many chairs she is sitting on so that he can calculate her bill. Date: 1859

CARRYING BANANAS / WINDIE
A fruit market at Fort de France, Martinique. One man carries a tray of melons on his head, while a woman carries an enormous bunch of bananas on hers. Date: 1931

Edna May (1878 -1948), American Actress, wearing an enormous feathered hat with a large blue ribbon tied at the side Date: 1905

Going to the Pantomime 1853
Dear papa takes his family off to the panto - they all fit into one enormous cab ! Date: 1853

Costume - Men - Jap Archer
A Japanese archer of ancient times, fully equipped with a quiver full of arrows and an enormous bow Date: ANCIENT JAPAN

Comic Postcard - Hat theme - Gertie at Nottingham
Comic Postcard - satire on the penchant for women to wear large and enveloping hats during this period - Gertie at Nottingham. Date: circa 1907

Netherland Plaza Hotel, 5th and Race Street, Cincinnati Ohio
Carew Tower - Netherland Plaza Hotel, 5th and Race Street, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Completed in 1930 - a fine example of Art Deco architecture. The tower is now named after Joseph T

Giant Saman Tree - Queens Park - Port of Spain, Trinidad. Date: 1915

Girl in bright pink dress with ENORMOUS hat
Girl in bright pink dress with an ENORMOUS flower-adorned hat and carrying a pink parasol. Date: 1909

Harem Skirt - Enormous Hat
The Harem Skirt - The Simple Life - The shade option provided by wearing an all-encompassing hat! Date: 1911

Jewish Womans Pantaloons - on washing line - Tunisia
Jewish Ladys Pantaloons - on washing line - Tunisia. Their magnificence quite clearly warrants the personal guard...! Date: circa 1909

Large waterwheels at Antakya
Hama, Syria. The city is renowned for its 17 norias (waterwheels) used for watering the gardens, which date back to 1100 BC

Syrian Porter carries two enormous trunks on his back
A Syrian Porter carries two enormous trunks on his back. Date: circa 1910s

Enormous cotton tree, Sierra Leone, West Africa
Cotton tree with enormous buttresses, historic symbol of Freetown, capital city of Sierra Leone, West Africa. Date: circa 1908

Having dinner on the Confederate Memorial, Stone Mountain
Confederate Memorial, Stone Mountain, Georgia, USA - Governor Trinkle of Virginia and other Notables Having Dinner on the carved Shoulder of General Lee

West African Tuareg Horse Warriors
West African Tuareg Warriors, in traditional veiled headdresses, all mounted on fine horse and carrying spears and enormous shields

Girl with Beach Ball
Playful blonde model poses with an enormous beach ball on golden sands wearing a red & white striped cowl neck top & tiny red shorts

Recruits, 1780.Engraving by Watson and Dickinson after W H Bunbury, 1780.This caricature was published during the American War of Independence (1775-1783)

The Largest Floating Dry Dock in the World - Southampton
The Largest Floating Dry Dock in the World (960 ft. long and 134 ft. wide) at Southampton, Hampshire, England. Built in 1922 by Armstrong, Whitworth, for the Southern Railway. Date: circa 1923

Fashion House / Worth
A vendeuse helps a client - who can hardly see from under her enormous hat ! - choose a dress in the salon de vente, chez Worth Date: 1910

Monster Gun of Tanjore, Tamil Nadu, India
Monster Gun of Tanjore (Thanjavur), Tamil Nadu, India. This enormous iron cannon was built during the reign of Raghunatha Nayak (17th century), and is thought to be one of the largest in the world

Young Victorian woman in pink crinoline
A young Victorian woman in an enormous pink crinoline evening dress decorated with roses. She has matching roses in her hair, and a fan in her hand. Date: circa 1860

Large Ivory tusk from the Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania
Large Ivory tusk, weighing over 200lbs from the Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania, East Africa. Date: circa 1910s

Hobble skirt fashion victim
A fashionable ladys vision and gait is impaired by her enormous hat and tight hobble skirt. A chance encounter with a gentlemen friend, also out walking his dog, saves the day. Date: 1911

The Edge of the American Sector, Berlin, 1949
Photograph showing German men and women removing the rubble barricades between the American Sector and the Soviet Sector of Berlin at the end of the Berlin Blockade, May 1949

HMS Phoenix after the Hong-Kong Typhoon, September 1906
Photograph of HMS Phoenix, the twin-screw steel and wood sloop of 1895, heeled over beside the coaling station, Hong Kong

Kolinsky Fur Coat 1922
A full-length coat in Kolinsky fur with wrap-over front, funnel sleeves, enormous roll collar & separate skirts with a seam at the hips

Giant Baby / Rabelais
Gargantua, as a baby: he has to be carried by several villagers because of his enormous size... Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/Mary Evans

Irish Elk - Megaloceros
or Irish Elk A Diluvian ancestor of the Irish deer, noted for the enormous size of its antlers

Canada - Great Lakes - Terminal Grain Elevator - Loading a ship Date: circa 1920s

Comic Postcard - Hat theme - Who Cares for Rain
Comic Postcard - satire on the penchant for women to wear large and enveloping hats durng this period. Who Cares for Rain! (5/6). Date: circa 1900

Comic Postcard - Hat theme - Goodbye Sweetheart Goodbye
Comic Postcard - satire on the penchant for women to wear large and enveloping hats durng this period. Goodbye Sweetheart Goodbye (4/6). Date: circa 1900

Comic Postcard - Hat theme - We never speak as we pass by
Comic Postcard - satire on the penchant for women to wear large and enveloping hats durng this period. We never speak as we pass by (6/6). Date: circa 1900

Comic Postcard - Hat theme - Three Little Maids
Comic Postcard - satire on the penchant for women to wear large and enveloping hats durng this period. Three Little Maids (3/6). Date: circa 1900

Comic Postcard - Hat theme - Scandal (under difficulties)
Comic Postcard - satire on the penchant for women to wear large and enveloping hats durng this period. Scandal (under difficulties) (2/6). Date: circa 1900

Comic Postcard - Hat theme - Auntie Goes Wading
Comic Postcard - satire on the penchant for women to wear large and enveloping hats durng this period. Auntie Goes Wading (1/6). Date: circa 1900

Young French girl with a huge St Bernard Dog Date: circa 1910s

The great American dog, Prince, a Siberian bloodhound, with his owner Mr Francis Butler of New York, who had the honour of attending Windsor Castle with his companion

Fantastic Adventures - Return of Sinbad by Chester S. Geier. A man in Arabian dress flies in space on a giant bird of prey. The distressed bird is being attacked by the lasers of several spaceships

Italian Lakes - Fresco by Luine - Enormous fresco inside church. Part of Box 184 Boswell Collection - Italian Lakes. Date: circa 1900

Susi - losing her dinner to a much bigger dog. 1950s

Uzbekistan - Tashkent - A Huge Crowd watching acrobats. Date: circa 1907

Comic exaggeration card - The Wool Producers of Canada - giant sheep! Date: 1910

Eugene Godard
EUGENE GODARD: French aeronaut, best known for the captive balloon at the Paris Exposition which attracted enormous numbers of visitors. We have many pictures of it. Date: 1827? - 1890

COSTUME 1895
Enormous gigot sleeves with epaulettes, large skirts (possibly 7 gored skirts), tiny waists, broad belts, high necked blouse with yoke, huge hats ornamented with flowers. Date: 1895

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