Giant Collection (page 16)

Cartoon, Giving him his place in the sun, WW1
Cartoon, Giving him his place in the sun, showing British, French, Belgian, Russian and Japanese allies working together with a giant magnifying glass to set fire to Kaiser Wilhelms jacket

Fruit Label -- Pedro Monsonis oranges
Fruit Label -- Pedro Monsonis selected oranges, imported from Valencia, Spain, depicting two Greedy Mice pulling a giant orange apart. Date: 20th century

Business card design, chef with large cake
Business card design, depicting a smiling chef holding a large cake. Date: 20th century

Blood and Iron 1914
On 4th August 1914, Britain declared war on Germany, marking the beginning of the First World War; a few days later this illustration appeared in The Graphic. Date: 1914

Copenhagen, Denmark - Tuborg Pavilion
Copenhagen, Denmark - The Tuborg Pavilion, with the distinctive giant bottle of Tuborg beer! Date: circa 1904

Nursery Rhymes -- daffodil lady, giant on sea shore
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- a lady dressed as a daffodil is pulled along by three white mice. Below -- an ugly giant stands on the sea shore

Bringing home some jumbo spuds
A farmer brings home a splendid crop of giant potatoes.... Date: circa 1910s

YEW TREE BIRD
With its giant tail arched high across the road, this giant bird is really a remarkable trimmed yew tree, a familiar sight in North Cadbury, Somerset, England. Date: 1950s

Rameses II Statue
Giant head (probably depicting RAMESES II )beside the Obelisk in front of the Pylon of the AMUN-RE TEMPLE (Temple of Luxor), Thebes (modern Luxor ) Egypt. Date: 14th century BC

Queen Mary Ocean Liner
The giant liner The Queen Mary of the Cunard White Star Company, known as Hull Number 534. Date: 1934

August Severo
AUGUST SEVERO Brazilian aviator who tried to fly from Europe to Brazil in a giant balloon, Le Jesus, but only got part of the way... Date: 1864 - 1902

Singapore Apartment 1976
A new giant apartment building at the end of a street of old houses. Date: 1976

Giant Haystack
A large haystack on an English farm. Date: early 1930s

English Haymakers 1930S
Haymaking onto a giant haystack on an English farm. Date: circa 1950

Lyons Easter Egg Girls
Girls from the Lyons factory show off an impressive display of Easter eggs, including a giant one! Date: early 1930s

Giant Easter Egg
A girl holding a splendid giant Easter egg! Date: early 1930s

Giant German Glider
A group of men admire a giant glider plane in Germany. Date: early 1930s

Grizzly Giant Tree, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite (1896). Hill, Thomas 1829-1908. Date: 1896

Benson log raft - Columbia River, USA
A fine view of a Benson raft - a huge seagoing log raft designed to reliably transport millions of board feet of timber (at one time - this card says 8 million feet) through the open ocean

Zulu children arriving out of giant eggs
A very surreal and slightly disturbing postcard showing Fresh arrivals - a group of young Zulu toddlers emerging fully-formed out of giant eggs! Date: circa 1903

Giant Pneumatic Tyres - Dunlop - Three styles - 90 High Pressure, High Pressure (Triple Stud) and Low Pressure. Date: circa 1935

Taft on the Campaign Trail in Colorado, USA - Giant Veg
William Howard Taft (18571930), on the Campaign Trail in Colorado, USA - the card is entitled Prosperity due to the funny addition of piles of exaggerated-size vegetables

China - Shanghai - Festival Procession of giant figures
China - Shanghai - Festival (or Funeral) Procession down the street of giant figures on wheeled carts. Date: circa 1920s

Catch of Giant Pike near Port Washington, Ohio, USA
Catch of (quite unbelievable!) Giant Pike near Port Washington, Ohio, USA Date: circa 1916

Canada - Transporting a load of fancy poulty, the size of which is certainly not paltry! Date: 1904

Taking home a little Pisa, Italy
A giant carries away the principal sights of Pisa, Italy, including the Leaning Tower, the Baptistry and the Duomo. Date: 1900

Giant Buddha Statue - Prah Khan, Cambodia
A Giant statue of Buddha at Preah Khan is a temple at Angkor, Cambodia, built in the 12th century for King Jayavarman VII

Schoolboy suggest a game of ping pong to W G Grace
" I should like to play you at ping pong" !! A young schoolboy suggests a sensible choice of sporting contest when faced with the colossus of the cricketing world, Dr W G Grace

Keep Smiling! Young Giant Panda taking a photograph
The tables are turned in this fantastic postcard showing a Giant Panda taking a photograph of onlookers, unlike the normal situation where the panda is the subject of the onlookers attention

Superstitution Mountains, Apache Trail - Arizona, USA Date: circa 1920s

Giant Cactus (Sahuaro) in bloom - Arizona, USA Date: circa 1930s

Giant Cacti (Sahuaro) - Arizona, USA Date: circa 1930s

Potter Hotel - Sail Boats - Santa Barbara, California, USA
Sail Boats on the lake at the massive Potter Hotel and Grounds, Santa Barbara, California, USA. Six-and-a-half stories high with 390 guest rooms

The Undercut of a Californian redwood
The immense Undercut required in the felling of a Californian giant redwood tree Date: circa 1906

Etretat, France - working a beachside capstan
Etretat in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France - French Fisherfolk working a beachside capstan to draw in a fishing boat

Potter Hotel, Santa Barbara, California, USA
The Massive Potter Hotel and Grounds in Midwinter (!), Santa Barbara, California, USA. Six-and-a-half stories high with 390 guest rooms

de Havilland DH61 Giant Moth, G-AUJC, Diana, of Qantas

The first de Havilland DH61 Giant Moth, G-EBTL, Canberra

Cunard, construction of the new giant liner
Cunard, Christmas 1931: construction of the new giant liner, cover Date: 1931

Demag Duisburg Giant Cranes
Advertisement for Demag Duisburg Giant Cranes

The Queen Elizabeth in her ship yard, the giant hull clearly visible against the sky

Panama Canal: giant steam shovels

British Museum (Natural History) New Fossil Mammal Gallery P
A poster advertising the New Fossil Mammal Gallery Pleistocene Section which opened in 1970. One of the many fossils displayed in the gallery was a Giant Irish Elk, which is depicted in this poster

Megaloceros, Irish elk
Also known as Irish elk, Megaloceros lived across Europe and western Asia until it became extinct about 8, 000 years ago

Geochelone elephantopus, giant tortoise

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