Huge Collection (page 9)

Dusting a Staircase
An Edwardian housemaid dusts the elaborate balustrade of a huge staircase. Date: early 1900s (re-enactment)

British Reserves 1918
Young British reserve soldiers arrive on the Western Front and march past a huge crater created by enemy shells. Date: 1918

Giant British Gun
A huge mounted artillery gun on a camouflaged British train destined for the Western Front. Date: 1918

Christian W E Dietrich
CHRISTIAN WILHELM ERNST DIETRICH German artist, depicted at work on a sheet of paper resting on a huge portfolio. Date: 1712 - 1774

Cancer X-Ray Machine
A huge new German x-ray lamp, for cancer treatment, which casts a very long localised beam on the affected area, without touching the rest of the patients body. Date: 1933

Farcey Gunboat
French cannoniere Farcey - a neat little steamcraft with one huge gun, and a pointed prow with which to ram an enemy vessel, Date: 1869

French / German Champagne
While French saboteurs destroy vineyards, German growers sell fake champagne for huge profits. Date: 1911

Fossils in Colorado
Huge fossil bones belonging to gigantic antediluvan animals found in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado, USA. Date: 1878

Clapham Junct Signals
The signalman at Clapham Junction - Londons busiest station - is responsible for a huge array of signals : pulling the wrong one could result in catastrophe... Date: 1885

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

Play / Manners / O my Heart
A girl carrying a white dog is depicted behind a huge red heart on the poster of this play be John Hartley Manners. Date: 1912

Albert a D Sassoon
Sir ALBERT ADDALLAH DAVID SASSOON - son of David S. member of family who used opium trade and exploited native labour to acquire huge fortune and titles. Date: 1818 - 1896

SAWYER 1827
A sawyer using a huge saw to cut through planks of wood. Date: 1827

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

Samuel R Crockett / V Fair
SAMUEL RUTHERFORD CROCKETT Scottish novelist who wrote in dialect Date: 1860 - 1914

HUGE CRABS
Sailors, shipwrecked on their way to India, catch and eat huge crabs Date: circa 1600

Dutch Coppersmith C17
A Dutch coppersmith at work, while outdoors his colleagues are working on a huge copper object Date: 17th century

Junkers G-38 on Ground
This huge passenger plane, with a wingspan of 45 metres, dwarfs the little two-seater beside it at Dessau : four privileged passengers sit in the wings, enjoying the view. Date: 1929

Spaceship over Moon
FANTASIA LUNAR - a huge spacecraft from Earth flies over the Moons rocky surface. Date: 1929

Yule Log Lugged
Lugging a huge Yule Log home through the snow Date: circa 1905

San Fernando Valley - Music Sheet Cover. Gordon Jenkins song San Fernando Valley gave a huge boost to the visibility of the Valley, just as WWII veterans came home.Mayfair Music Corp. N.Y

Children and a big turkey
Two nervous children in a farmyard facing a huge turkey. Artist: Ethel Parkinson Date: 1909

Lanes Redwood Flat, Redwood Highway, California, USA. Date: circa 1936

Souvenir postcard of the Giant Child, Anna
Souvenir postcard with a portrait of the Giant Child, Anna, who, according to information given was eight years old at the time this picture was taken and weighed 170lbs. Date: c.1900

WW1 - Eastern Front - Church service at Red Square, Moscow to blessRussian soldiers serving at the front. Date: circa 1917

Plank shop at Battersbys hatworks showing formed felt cones, te basis for a fur felt hat. Note the huge amount of pipework, and the exposed belt drives to the machinery. Date: 1902

Matthew and a huge angel. Date: circa late 19th century

Huge tree under which there are African men with various obj
Hand coloured. Illustration of a huge tree under which there are African men carrying various objects. Two of the men are carrying a white person in a small carriage

India - Thread-like bridge over the Jadh-Gunga
Black and white. Thin, delicate bridge strung between sheer faced walls of a huge gorge. A man is visible on the bridge.. Part of India Box, Boswell Collection. Slide number 229. Date: circa 1890s

India - Bhairoghat thread-like bridge over Jadh-Gunga Gorge
Black and white. Thin, delicate bridge strung between sheer faced walls of a huge gorge. A man is visible on the bridge.. Part of India Box, Boswell Collection. Slide number 229 and 61

India - Bawackpore
Black and white lantern slide of a huge tree in foreground framing house and garden. Slide Number 8 in Box 221 Boswell Collection Date: circa 1890s

European Bisons - young calf and a huge male - react defensively seeing a visitor while resting together after feeding - a part of a larger herd living wild but fed supplementary - enclosure in a

Pacific Swallow (adult) in its nest, built in a niche, carved by sea waves, under a huge volcanic boulder on a beach (Hirundo tahitica). Tioman Island, Malaysia; June

Rainforest and huge limestone rocks are typical in Sabang National Park. Palawan, Philippines - February

Suffragette Societies Rally to the Cause. Depicts women from various suffrage organisations protesting in front of Asquith

Married Suffragette Support. Huge lady and suffragette, perches on the lap of her diminutive and miserable looking hubby. Captioned, Monster

Suffragette Votes Got em at Last. Woman in huge hat with small dog on a lead. Dog remarks, Votes!! They ve got em at last! Date: circa 1918

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

Cartoon, Sir Herbert Tree as Falstaff in Henry IV Part I at His Majestys Theatre, London. A speech bubble says: Zounds! I am so big that they ve had to make a full page of me. Date: 1914

Golfing humour
Golfer takes a huge swipe at his ball - and misses! Date: circa 1903

Giant bamboo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1890s

Maiden voyage of the Vaterland
The maiden voyage of what was at the time the biggest ship in the world: the German Hamburg-Amerika cruise liner, Vaterland

Launch of Cunarder, Aquitania, by G. H. Davis
The launch of the year. First drawings of the gigantic Cunarder, the Aquitania, in the process of being built on the Clyde. Above: a cross section

Liner Narrung in a gale by G. H. Davis
The Christmas gale: beaten back by the sea. How the P&O liner Narrung was forced back by huge waves off Ushant, Brittany. Showing the vessels position before she met the huge waves

Britains bomb progress by G. H. Davis
Britains bomb progress during the Second World War: from 500-pounder to a 12, 000-pound factory buster. Date: 1944

Middle East warfare by G. H. Davis
Middle East warfare during the Second World War: rival fighters, bombers and flying boats. A comparison of rival military aircraft in the Middle East

Transatlantic flight by G. H. Davis
The transatlantic flight: the type of British machine which will attempt it. Top: dropping the chassis at the moment of setting out -- a daring device

A Mako Shark Hooked
A huge Mako shark being hooked off the coast of New Zealand. Date: 1928

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