Fat Collection (page 8)

Comic German postcard -- health spa physiotherapy
Comic German postcard by Arthur Thiele -- greetings from Karlsbad -- a grossly overweight man enjoys a bit of physiotherapy. Date: early 20th century

The Fat Boy of Peckham
John Trundley, or sometimes, Trunley (1898 - 1944), known as the Fat Boy of Peckham shown in a series of photographs at the time he was appearing at the Royal in Holborn

Advert for Trilene Tablets, weight loss 1898
All Fat People, Victorian advert for a cure for overweight people, reducing your weight in a few weeks by simply taking Trilene Tablets. Date: 1898

American Fat Man - Barney Worth - Freakshow Performer
American Fat Man - Barney Worth - Remarkable socks and slightly distressingly-short shorts. Titania and Barney Worth were billed as The Worlds Fattest Couple when going on show at various Freakshows

Honore Balzac, Satirical caricature
HONORE DE BALZAC (1799 - 1850) French novelist and playwrite. Considered one of the founders of European Realism for his short stories

Cartoon, Family man, WW1
Cartoon, Family man. A middle aged French soldier reprimands a young German soldier for shooting at him. He says if he didn t have a boy of his age, he would give him a couple of slaps. Date: 1916

Old meat works, illustration by William Heath Robinson
Curious plant in an old meat works, for converting old mutton into spring lamb to meet the seasons demands, illustration by William Heath Robinson. Credit must appear as: Courtesy of Mrs J. C

WW1 drawing, fat corporal stuck in a trench
WW1 comic drawing showing a fat corporal stuck in a trench. Date: 1914-1918

Cartoon, The New Dance Mistress, WW1
Cartoon, The New Dance Mistress, showing an Austro-Hungarian or German officer in eastern costume introducing a plump German woman, Fraulein Gans (Miss Goose)

Tibetan fat-tailed sheep
A Tibetan fat-tailed sheep Date: circa 1910s

The Fat Boy 10000lb atomic bomb
The Fat Boy 10, 000lb atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on 9 August 1945. Date: 1945

Royal wedding 1893 - Duke and Duchess of Teck and family
The Duke and Duchess of Teck and family around the time of the marriage of their daughter Princess May of Teck(later the Duchess of York)

Jack Sprat could eat no fat... 19th century

FAT BUNNY
Three children look in astonishment at an extremely tubby bunny

Joint of meat with comic verse on a Christmas card
Joint of meat with comic verse on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Comic postcard, Man visiting the doctor Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, help with suitcases Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Large woman keeping cool at the seaside Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Plump woman in the rain Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Mother and daughter at station
Comic postcard, Mother giving her daughter advice as she is about to leave on a train Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Couple leapfrogging on the beach - I m full of fun and fancy free! Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, gondola on the lake with ducks Date: 20th century

People on the ice on a comic Christmas card
Two men skating on thin ice, accompanied by a dog, on a comic Christmas card by Ernest Griset. Date: circa 1890s

Comic German postcard -- Two Better Halves
Comic German postcard by Arthur Thiele -- Two Better Halves -- two grossly overweight women followed by their two skinny husbands. Date: early 20th century

Comic German postcard -- The Cavalier
Comic German postcard by Arthur Thiele -- The Cavalier -- a grossly overweight man with two grossly overweight women, in the rain with a small umbrella. Date: early 20th century

Comic German postcard -- health spa new invention
Comic German postcard by Arthur Thiele -- greetings from Karlsbad -- a grossly overweight man uses a new invention for abdominal support, looking very much like a wheelbarrow. Date: early 20th century

Comic German postcard -- drunkard in the toilet
Comic German postcard by Arthur Thiele -- a drunkard collapses at the side of a toilet. Date: early 20th century

Comic German postcard -- health spa toilets
Comic German postcard -- desperate men and women run towards the health spa toilets. Date: early 20th century

Comic German postcard -- health spa toilet engaged
Comic German postcard -- greetings from Karlsbad -- nine desperate, overweight men wait outside the health spa toilet. Date: early 20th century

Comic German postcard -- health spa doctor and patient
Comic German postcard by Franz Whonpfeng -- the doctor at a health spa examines a grossly overweight female patient. Date: 1909

Comic German postcard -- health spa toilets all engaged
Comic German postcard by Franz Whonpfeng -- desperate, overweight men discover that all the toilets at the health spa are engaged. Date: 1909

Comic German postcard -- paying for access
Comic German postcard -- desperate, overweight men paying for access to the toilet at a health spa. Date: early 20th century

Comic German postcard -- greetings from Karlsbad -- equipment for spa guests, focusing around the smallest room. Date: early 20th century

Comic German postcard -- mud bath at a health spa
Comic German postcard -- an overweight man is hosed off after a mud bath at a health spa -- A glimmer of light in the dark! Date: circa 1900s

Cadburys Happy Families - Master Flavour
Cadburys Cocoa Cubs Happy Families - Master Flavour the Chefs Son. circa 1950

A (Y)appy Idea! by William Heath Robinson, WWI rationing
The Ventrimetric System: Rational weights and measures for use in hotels, restaurants, and clubs for the limitation of appetites

Advertisment for diet pills
Advert for Trilene diet pills with the tag line Fat People can be cured 1913

Henry the Eighth - title page - Archbishop Cranmer. 1862

Comic postcard, large man with small car
Comic postcard, showing a large man easing himself into a small sports car -- " I m almost there!" Date: circa 1930s

Cartoon, German women as seen by the French, WW1
Cartoon, German intellectual women as seen by the French. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Waking up Germania, WW1
Cartoon, Waking up Germania. After the war, Madame Germania must pay the bill for all the damage she has done. The waiter is a macabre, thin man with a skull for his head. Date: 1918

Paul Nelke, businessman
PAUL NELKE Businessman and racehorse owner Date: 1860 -

Tallow-Chandler 1827
" The business of a tallow- chandler consists in making candles of suet or fat and in selling them after they are made". Date: 1827

Honore de Balzac engraving by Rousseau
HONORE DE BALZAc (1799 - 1850) French novelist and playwrite. Considered one of the founders of European Realism for his shorts stories

Honore de Balzac engraving by Ch Chardon
HONORE DE BALZAC (1799 - 1850) French novelist and playwrite. Considered one of the founders of European Realism for his short stories

Irish Witch
In England, spirit mediums live off the fat of the land, while in Ireland, so-called witches are punished Date: 1865

Advert for Battle Creek Health Builder 1929
Mechanical massaging exercise machine that with a vibrating belt, used by 80, 000 men and women in the 1920s. Date: 1929

Advert for Abplanalps Institute, cure of obesity 1929
Showing a man with large a waistline and after the recommended workout slim two months later. For all sexes the cure of obesity, free booklet and cinema demonstration

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