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Joint of meat with comic verse on a Christmas cardJoint 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 stationComic 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 cardTwo 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 HalvesComic 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 CavalierComic 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 inventionComic 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 toiletComic German postcard by Arthur Thiele -- a drunkard collapses at the side of a toilet. Date: early 20th century
Comic German postcard -- health spa toiletsComic German postcard -- desperate men and women run towards the health spa toilets. Date: early 20th century
Comic German postcard -- health spa toilet engagedComic 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 patientComic 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 engagedComic 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 accessComic 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 spaComic 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 FlavourCadburys Cocoa Cubs Happy Families - Master Flavour the Chefs Son. circa 1950
A (Y)appy Idea! by William Heath Robinson, WWI rationingThe Ventrimetric System: Rational weights and measures for use in hotels, restaurants, and clubs for the limitation of appetites
Advertisment for diet pillsAdvert 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 carComic 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, WW1Cartoon, German intellectual women as seen by the French. Date: 1916
Cartoon, Waking up Germania, WW1Cartoon, 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, businessmanPAUL 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 RousseauHONORE 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 ChardonHONORE DE BALZAC (1799 - 1850) French novelist and playwrite. Considered one of the founders of European Realism for his short stories
Irish WitchIn 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 1929Mechanical 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 1929Showing 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
Cartoon, German women also Uber Alles, WW1Cartoon, German women are also Uber Alles. Six scenes depicting German women and their influence on everyday life. Date: 1916
Cartoon, King Ferdinand of Bulgaria and Judas, WW1Cartoon, King Ferdinand of Bulgaria and Judas, both seen as betrayers. Judas hanged himself in remorse after betraying Christ, and he now offers Ferdinand a rope for him to do the same. Date: 1915
A portly lady is laced into her corset by her maid Date: 1921
Cartoon, Boche idealism, WW1Cartoon, Boche idealism -- a fat German with food and drink on the table and portraits of two German philosophers (Leibniz and Kant) on the wall. Date: 1915
WW2 Valentines Day card, Home GuardWW2 Valentines Day card, Let me be your Home Guard for life, design by Bert Thomas. Date: circa 1942
Cartoon, Things that matter, WW1Cartoon, Things that matter -- Brain. Crown Prince: It doesn t matter what Papa or Michaelis says. After all, we are the real brain(s) of the Empire
Cartoon satirising German soldiers, WW1Cartoon satirising German soldiers during the First World War: Goot gracious me! Here kom der 16th Royal Scots. Date: 1914-1915
Cyril Smith, British Liberal politicianSir Cyril Smith (1928-2010), British Liberal Party politician, MP for Rochdale, Lancashire from 1972 until he retired in 1992. Date: 1960s
Cockney Argument between a fat man and a thin manFat Party (after a War of words) - " If you come our court to-morrer and bring a bit o fat with yer, I ll bloomin well eat yer." !! Date: 1895
Advert for Kensitas Cigarettes, 1929Its better to be fit than fat Kensitas Cigarettes marketed as a appetite suppressant in 1929, recommending substituting snacks between meals with a cigarette instead
Satirical cartoon with Turkish and German soldiers, WW1A satirical cartoon showing a fat German soldier strangling a thin Turkish soldier during the First World War. The cartoon (in French) reads: The brave Turk is afraid of no-one
Herero man, German South West AfricaA native Herero man in German South West Africa (now Namibia), either before or during the First World War. A rebellion by the Hereros against the German colonists took place between 1904 and 1907
Greek Anti-British Propaganda Postcard - this translates as: " Greek Soldiers - this is whom you are fighting!" The British forces are characterised as a fat John Bull
Queen Mary with her motherQueen Mary (1867 - 1953), formerly Princess May of Teck, pictured with her mother the Duchess of Teck (formerly Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge)
