Tallest Collection

Building Emp State Buil
A dizzy perch 350 yards above street level: A New York workman (Carl Russell) engaged on the worlds tallest bulding (at the time), the Empire State Building

The Empire State Building, New York, 1945
Photograph of the Empire State Building, New York. At 1250 foot high, it was then the tallest skyscraper in the world

Mother Russia Statue - Battle of Stalingrad
Russia, Volgograd (Zaryzin, Stalingrad) - The Battle of Stalingrad Memorial (fought during World War Two between August - January 1942/43)

Giant Machnow at Taylors Depository, Pimlico, London. Feodor Machnow, (Fyodor Makhnov) was born in 1878 at the village of Kostyuks in the Ukraine

White Star to New York
Poster for the White Star Line to New York featuring the RMS Olympic (sister ship to the Britannic and Titanic) in New York harbour with the Woolworth Building in the background

Giraffe (Bewick)
giraffa camelopardalis The Cameleopard as it is known in Bewicks day is the worlds tallest animal, standing over 5.5m tall. The okapi is a relative

A Visit to the Irish Pig! With reflections Physical & Moral
George III, accompanied by the Lord Chamberlain Salisbury, inspects a gigantic pig. Salisbury announces That Pig is the Tallest Fittest Properest Pig to stand before the K[ing]

The Wonders of the World - some of the principal architectural gems of the world in 1913, including the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, The Washington Monument

Letourdie
This painting depicts the scene of three happy girls, wearing white dresses and bonnets tied with black ribbon. The tallest girl is carrying a full basket of roses

Shoreham, England
An oil painting of the coastal town of Shoreham, in West Sussex, England, with a cluster of houses, looked upon by the tallest building, a church. Date: circa 1910

Towers at Kampen, Holland
This etching shows some large bell towers, the tallest one being the Nieuwe Toren, (New Tower), located in Oudestraat, in the city of Kampen, Netherlands

The Woolworth Building, 233 Broadway, New York, USA
The Woolworth Building, 233 Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, USA. Designed by architect Cass Gilbert and constructed between 1910 and 1912 - an early skyscraper

The Training College and the then new (1962) CIS Building, which remains the tallest building in Manchester, England. Date: 1960s

The Woolworth Building, Manhattan, New York City, NY, USA. Date: circa 1913

Eastman Kodak Camera and Film Factory, Rochester, USA
Eastman Kodak Camera and Film Factory, Rochester, New York State, USA, claiming the tallest chimney in America, at 366 feet high. early 1900s

Hotel Fremont, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Date: circa 1956

The latest and tallest sky-scraper at the time in New York, the Flatiron a triangular 20-story building in Twenty-third Street, Fifth Avenue and Broadway. Date: 1902

The Woolworth Building, New York, USA
The Woolworth Building, 233 Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, USA. Designed by architect Cass Gilbert and constructed between 1910 and 1912 - an early skyscraper

Qutub Minar, Delhi, India
Qutub Minar, the worlds tallest brick minaret, Delhi, India. Date: circa 1832

UNABLE TO SEE AT THEATRE
The fellow in front of you at the theatre is always the tallest in the room: a short man struggles to catch a glimpse of the stage Date: 1843

Sudan - Dinka Porters
Porters of the Dinka people, the major ethnic group of South Sudan - shown here as part of a group transporting the baggage of (seemingly) a group of colonial officials. Date: circa 1910s

Eiffel Tower in comparison to other buildings, 1889
A diagram showing how much higher the Eiffel Tower was in comparison to other world-famous tall buildings when it was constructed in 1889. Even the spires of Cologne and Old St

Somme, France - Amiens Cathedral
Somme, France - The Amiens Cathedral, The Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Amiens, is the tallest complete cathedral in France and sits overlooking the Amiens River in the Somme region

The Flatiron building at night. Broadway and Fifth Avenue, New York. Built in 1902. Date: 1900s

Stela E in Quirigua, Guatemala, Guatemala
Ruins of Quirigua, an ancient Maya archaeological site in the department of Izabal in south-eastern Guatemala. The monuments at Quirigua include unusually large stelae elaborately carved from single

Battle of Stalingrad Memorial
Russia, Volgograd (Zaryzin, Stalingrad) - The Battle of Stalingrad Memorial (fought during World War Two between August - January 1942/43)

White Star Line brochure
A White Star Line brochure advertising the Olympic and Titanic steamships, comparing their length to some of the tallest buildings in the world

Which is the tallest, by Hilda Cowham
Two small children attempt to measure their height, though it looks as if the little boy is giving himself some artificial help by standing on a book. Date: 1914

Animals at a French Zoo - Giraffe - Giraffe in Paddock. Part of Box 209 Boswell collection - Old and New French Zoo.The giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) is an African even-toed ungulate mammal

USA - Grand Geyser Yellowstone Park - Grand Geyser - a fountain geyser in the Upper Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park in the United States. It is the tallest predictable geyser known

Dun Carrier Cock Pigeon
A full-length portrait of a Dun Carrier Cock. The Dun Carrier Cock is an English fancy breed of pigeon. The large cere above the beak is one of the characteristics

Sydney, Australia - St. Marys Cathedral
Slide showing a photograph of St. Marys Cathedral, which is is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney and the seat of the Archbishop of Sydney

Admiring view from second platform of the Eiffel Tower
People looking at the view through telescopes and binoculars from the second platform of the Eiffel Tower (a height of 380 feet)

Letting loose balloons from the Eiffel Tower
A small girl in the arms of her father, lets loose a small balloon with a postcard attached from the third platform of the newly completed Eiffel Tower

Graphic front cover - Visitors to the Eiffel Tower
Some rather good portraits by Graphic artist, Paul Renouard, depicting visitors to the Eiffel Tower at the Paris International Exhibition of 1889

Reception on completion of Eiffel Tower
VIPS, state and civic dignitaries, along with senior engineers gather for a reception at the top of the completed Eiffel Tower on 31 March 1889. Date: 1889

Colonnade, Qutub Minar, Delhi, India
Colonnade in the Qutub Minar, Delhi, India. It is next to the tallest minaret in India. Date: circa 1890s

The Woolworth Building, New York. It was built in 1913, and was the tallest building in the world between 1913 and 1930 at 241 meters tall. Date: C. 1913

The Singer Building, New York. It was the headquarters of the Singer Manufacturing Company. It is the tallest building to have been purposefully demolished at 187 meters tall

Twelve young people standing in a line, from the tallest to the smallest, with a large building in the background. Date: 1930

Chicago, USA - Looking North on Michigan Boulevard, showing Michigan Boulevard Bridge and some of the tallest buildings in the city at this period

Isfahan, Iran - The Ali Minaret
Ali minaret in Isfahan, Iran, close to the Ali mosque. The oldest minaret in Isfahan, dating back to the 11th century. Date: circa 1920s

The tallest and shortest pupils at Badminton Girls School
The tallest and shortest pupils at Badminton School - an Independent Girls school near Bristol. Pictured are Mertyl Webb-Johnson (the shorter) and Mary Feaver (the taller)

Tallest Chimney in France at Roubaix (Nord) - 105m tall Date: circa 1910s

LCC-MFB 75 foot wheeled escape cart
This horse drawn escape cart carried one of the longer versions of the wheeled escape ladder. Until the introduction of the horse drawn turntable ladder

Americas tallest tower, plus some temperament. Illustration shows a shadowy outline of the Woolworth Building. Date 1914 April 25

Turin, Italy - the Mole Antonelliana
Originally built as a synagogue, the Mole Antonelliana is a major landmark of the Italian city of Turin. It is named after the architect who built it, Alessandro Antonelli

A Giant Among Dwarfs
A giant among dwarfs. Date: early 1930s

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