Thin Collection (page 7)

Victorian Scrap, thin man dancing. circa 1880s

Waiting to take the stage at beauty competition, Manchester
A thin young lady waits for her turn to take the stage at a beauty competition in a Manchester nightclub. Date: circa 1980

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, a basset hound
Illustration by Cecil Aldin -- a basset hound called Hector, or Hectorhippopotamus, or Hectopotamus, later abbreviated to Potamus. Seen above as a thin stray, and below as a well-fed dog. Date: 1927

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, study of a Chow
Illustration by Cecil Aldin, a black Chow named Sun-Yat-Sen, or Sunny, who went missing, and was reunited with his master, exhausted and thin. Date: 1927

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, terrier returning home
Illustration by Cecil Aldin -- a rough-haired terrier named Turk, returning home after being sent to live somewhere else. Seen here dragging himself under a gate

Lurcher dog walking along
A Lurcher dog walking along. Date: 1928

Cartoon, Heros recruiting at Kelsey s, or, Guard Day at St James s, by James Gillray. Two officers, one tall and thin, the other very young, sit facing each other eating sweets at a confectioner s

Illustration, Hansel and Gretel -- Hansel, put out your finger for me to feel how fat you are. Date: 1909

Syngnathus aequoreus, or Ocean Pipefish, and a variation. Date: 1865

Gymnammodytes cicerelus, or Mediterranean Sand Eel, also known as the Short-Snouted Launce (Lance). Date: 1864

Echiodon dentatus, or Drummonds Echiodon, also known as Fierasfer dentatus and Pearlfish. Date: 1864

Lesser Launce and Larger Launce
Lesser Launce (Lance) and Larger Launce (Lance) or Wide-Mouthed Launce (both classified as Ammodytes tobianus). Also known as Sand Eel and Sandlance as they burrow in sand. Date: 1864

Ophidion barbatum, or Snake Blenny, also known as Bearded Ophidium. Date: 1864

Lepidopus caudatus, or Scabbard Fish, a species of cutlassfish, also known as Silver Scabbardfish, Frostfish, Beltfish and Scale-Foot. Date: 1863

Young man with a dog in a garden
Smartly dressed young man with a dog in a garden. Date: circa 1910s

Studio portrait, tall girl with whippet. Date: circa 1920s

Stanley and his boy Kululu
Hand coloured. Illustration of African boy in a loin cloth sits at the feet of a Caucasian man, wearing the clothes of an explorer.This is believed to be Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904)

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

Favourite Sayings - Duly feed man and steed
Black and white lantern slide of a man and painted in horse, both very thin, walking along a road.. Part of Box 197 Sayings, Boswell Collection

13th Highlanders Band of scouts on the march with drums

Boy scout saves drowning woman, Athens, Greece
A 15-year-old boy scout, Sokrates Haris, jumped into the sea and saved a drowning woman in the port of Volos in the Byron District of Athens, Greece

Suffragette on Her Honeymoon. Tall, thin and boney suffragette leads her husband firmly by the arm, while he looks rather apprhensive Date: circa 1909

Paris, France - General View, The Smallest House
Paris, France - The Smallest House in the city at 39 Rue du Chateau-d Eau. Date: 1897

To dress extravagantly in war is unpatriotic, WW1
To dress extravagantly in war is unpatriotic. Three unattractive older women passing a war poster. By George Belcher, RA (1875-1947)

Village elder, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1890s

The Seven Good Deeds of Bonzo (Saturday) -- he gives the fattened Christmas turkey a little exercise. Date: 1923

Advert for Eugene permanant hair waving 1923
Naturally wavy hair in 2 and a half hours. From straight to naturally curly hair in 2 and a half hours! Permanent curls and waves, soft and exquisitely becoming - glowing with life and colour

The Captain
Harlequin illustration, showing the Captain standing in a typical bragging pose. Date: 1923

Nursery Rhymes -- man watching pigs in a sty
Nursery Rhymes -- a man watching pigs in a sty. In the first illustration the pigs are plump and happy, but in the second they are thin and crying. Date: early 20th century

Illustration, Jersey in Jail, man and two women
Illustration, Jersey in Jail, showing a thin man whose trousers are too big for him, chatting with two women -- Very few have any superfluous fat of their own. Date: 1940-1945

The Tinkers. Barker, Thomas of Bath 1769 - 1847 (attributed to)

Christmas Greeting card featuring garden moths
Christmas Greeting card featuring three white garden moths alighting on a twig. Date: circa 1910s

Prairie wigwam - home to an indigenous Mother and Uncle
Prairie wigwam - home to the indigenous mans Mother and Uncle, both of whom peep out of suitable holes in the decorated canvas covering. It looks as if the Uncle has already hit the bottle

French Fantasy Beauty in see-through drape poses dramatically in front of a mysterious landscape vista. Date: circa 1910s

Vietnamese Beauty from My To, Tien Giang Province
A delightful photographic study of a beautiful Vietnamese girl from My Tho (the capital city of Tien Giang Province, located in the Mekong Delta region of South Vietnam)

Malaga - Spain - Calle Pintoresca. Date: circa 1920s

The Times Building, New York City, USA
The Times Building - One Times Square, New York City, USA. Now completely obscured by advertising hoardings! Date: 1905

A rather unpopular sporting character - late Victorian era - known a Poison Date: 1896

Souvenir of Scarborough - Elderly Widow - looking through her Lorgnette spectacles to little a-veil... Date: circa 1890s

The Two Macs - a theatrical comedy act of the London Variety theatres of the late Victorian age. Date: circa 1895

Spinster Street Singer sings her tale of woe
Spinster Street Singer and her tale of woe, sung in tremulous tones !! Street Singer (in tremulous tones) - " An oi tell them they need not come wooin ter me." Date: 1900

Pretty girl in white dress looking through photograph album
Pretty girl in a thin and off-the-shoulder white dress looking through a photograph album. What are the contents ?? Date: circa 1910s

Sordino - known to the French as a pochette - this instrument is a pocket fiddle. Derived in form from the medieval Rebec, orignating from the Near East and also known as the Gigue

Pretty French girl with roses
Pretty French girl in wide-brimmed hat clutching a large bunch of roses to her breast. Date: circa 1910s

Belgian Infantry in action at Malines - WWI
Belgian Infantry in action at Malines (Mechelen / Mechlin) on 25th August 1914 during the first week of the conflict during WWI. Date: 1914

Design for Printed Textile with thin stripes. Gouache on heavy paper. Silver Studio. 1919

LS Plate 168 from the John Reeves Collection

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