Largest Collection (page 10)

Rooms of the Aquitania
Interior water-colours showing interior rooms of the Cunard liner, Aquitania dubbed Britains Largest Sea Palace

Mission to Seamen Service on board a Barge, 1906
Photograph showing a Mission to Seamen Service being held on the deck of a barge, 1906. Mission boats were at work in many of the worlds largest ports, at this time

Rhinoceros / Kronheim 1869
The Indian rhinoceros is the largest of the Asian spiecies. It has a thick, dark-grey hide, which folds like armor

Glider of Ganymede
Though Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter, is the largest moon in the solar system, they rely on their abundant air currents (its a windy place) to carry gliders wherever they travel

Life on Jupiter
The largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter is 318 times as large as Earth, so perhaps supports a huge population which may surpass our civilisation in every way

A City on Titan
Here on Titan, largest of Saturns satellite moons, everything is on a massive scale - their cities make New York seem puny. People are intelligent and civilised

Airship of Europa
On Europa, Jupiters fourth largest moon, the science of plastics is advanced to its ultimate in this light and transparent airship

Heath & Heather Catalogu
Catalogue of Heath & Heather, the largest retail herb warehouse in the world

Heath & Heather
The largest retail herb warehouse in the world - Heath & Heather, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, has a floor area of over 24, 000 superficial feet

A help yourself grocery - checkout
Photograph taken from a United States supermarket in 1948, where Britains queues and rations are unknown, showing a woman being served at the checkout

Household Shopping Without Tears
The coffee counter of an American supermarket, untroubled by rationing in 1948. The concept of the supermarket where all manner of goods could be bought in one place

A help yourself grocery
Photograph taken from a United States supermarket in 1948, where Britains queues and rations are unknown. The concept of the supermarket where all manner of goods could be bought in one place

Mauretania
The Mauretania, built in 1906 at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. At the time, she was the largest liner in the world at 32, 000 gross tons

Berengaria
Cunard passenger liner Berengaria, formerly the Imperator steam ship. Largest passenger ship in her day

Canberra: tourist class restaurant
Colour illustration depicting the tourist class restaurant on board P&Os superliner Canberra around the time of her maiden voyage to Sydney, Australia in June 1961

Scott Memorial
SIR WALTER SCOTT The memorial to Sir Walter Scott in Princes Gardens, Edinburgh, the largest memorial ever built for a British author

Banquet on board the Faid Gihaad, 1862
Engraving showing a banquet on board the Viceroy of Egypts yacht, Faid Gihaad, then in the River Thames off Woolwich, London, July 1862

SS Lusitania, 1907
Photograph of the bows of the Cunard Liner, SS Lusitania, in dry dock 1907. Lusitania was then the largest liner afloat, weighing 32, 500 tons and capable of twenty-six knots

The Great Eastern steam ship under construction
The Great Eastern steam-ship on the stocks at Millwall shipyard. Built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, at the time of her launch in 1858, she was the largest steam ship in the world

The Normandie, the largest liner in the world
The burning of the luxury liner, the Normandie in 1942. The Normandie was the largest liner in the world. As World War II commenced the liner was taken out of service

England / Tewkesbury
Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, showing the Tower (the largest surviving Norman central tower in the world) of the Abbey, founded in the 11th century as a Benedictine monastery

Channel Bridge 2
The railway bridge project of Schneider and Hersent, high enough over the water for even the largest ships to pass beneath

Daily Herald advert for the worlds largest daily net sale

Ss GEORGE WASHINGTON
Atlantic liner of the United States Lines - at this time, the largest liner flying the American flag

STEAMSHIPS / PARIS
The largest French atlantic liner of her day, carrying 563 first class passengers, 480 second and 1092 third class, plus 1118 more in the steerage, and 664 crew

Caproni Ca-90
The worlds largest landplane (for the time being) this six engine heavy bomber will never have the chance to prove its worth, being obsolete by the next time Italy goes to war

St Pancras Platforms 2
A busy moment at the Midland Railway terminus which claims to be the largest single span passenger station in the world

St Pancras Platforms
With its magnificent canopy the Midland Railway terminus claims to be the largest single span passenger station in the world

Bow Street Office / Pugin
The Bow Street Office at the time of an examination. This office has the largest jurisdiction of any in the metropolis

Niederfinow Lift - 2
The barge lift at Niederfinow - the worlds largest of its kind

CHARLES CRUFT 1852-1938
CHARLES CRUFT founder of the largest and best known dog show in the world. Also a pet food magnate selling dog cakes

Sicily / Lipari & Castle
The volcanic island of Lipari, the largest of the Aeolian Islands off the coast of Sicily, showing the 13th century fortified walls & castle

Brit Museum Reading Rm
Readers in the Reading Room have access to one of the largest collections of books in the world

Marshall, Field Store
This Chicago store, with fronts on State, Washington, Randolph and Wabash streets, claims to be the largest retail mercantile store in the world

Kelloggs Factory
KELLOGGs CORNFLAKES The factory at Battle Creek, Michigan, the largest manufacturers of ready-to-eat cereal foods in the world

Dance at Viti Levu
Tribal dance of the people of Viti Levu, the largest island in the Fiji group

Tasmanian Devil - 2
(sarcophilus harrisii) The largest marsupial carnivore, nocturnal, uttering loud and devilish cries

Tasmanian Devil
(sarcophilus harrisii) The largest marsupial carnivore, nocturnal, uttering loud and devilish cries

Barking Creek
A small sailing boat makes its way down Barking Creek, which eventually joins the River Thames; in the 1850s, the creek was home to Englands largest fishing fleet

Capybara (Bewick)
(or capibara) mus hydrochaerus The largest of the rodents, dwelling in Brazil and related to the guinea-pig

Elk (Bewick)
cervus alces The largest and most formidable of all the Deer kind. Known in America as the Moose

Elk or Moose
Alces malchis. This is the largest kind of deer : the Americans call it a moose. This one is a female

MAJESTIC
Previously the Bismarck, German-built passenger liner of the White Star Line, at this time the largest steamer in the world, pictured at New York

Rhinoceros C1870
The Indian rhinoceros is the largest of the Asian spiecies. It has a thick, dark-grey hide, which folds like armor

Gordon Selfridge
GORDON SELFRIDGE Born in Ripon, Wisconsin, USA. Organized Selfridge & Co (1908) and developed it into one of the largest department stores in Europe

Lusitania in 1908
Passenger liner of the Cunard line, the largest in the world at the time of her launch; she will be torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1915, with the lost of 1198 lives

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