Thin Collection (page 9)

Romanian man with bunch of thin sticks
Romanian man with bunch of sticks, some held in a pouch under his arm. These obviously serve a deliberate purpose, but sadly this purpose has (as yet) escaped our powers of deduction... Date: 1915

Oriental Beauty - Egypt
Oriental Beauty in Egypt holding up a thin gossamer wrap/shawl Date: circa 1909

Comparison of height and girth
A small squat, bald and rather rotund Italian gentleman, complains to his slender and tall friend about the disparity in their physicality! Date: 1917

The Old Quarter - Nice, France Date: circa 1910s

Japan - Geisha girl preparing daikon
Japan - Geisha girl preparing (cutting) daikon (white radish), possibly for takuan or bettarazuke dishes. Date: circa 1910s

Swedish Ice Yachting
A happy young woman ice yachting (or sail skating) on a frozen lake in Sweden. Date: 1930s

Two ladies in evening wear by Martial et Armand and Beer
Two fashionable ladies in the latest evening wear. On the left, a skimpy white crepe evening dress with silver decoration and thin straps around the neck, under a white fur coat

Greek Artistic Beauty, elegantly draped in thin pink chiffon and holding a variety of metal amphorae. She seems to have forgotten some of her clothing however.... Date: circa 1910s

Indian soldier after the Siege of Kut, WW1
An Indian soldier in an emaciated condition after the Siege of Kut (1916), Mesopotamia (now Iraq), during the First World War. Date: circa 1916

Indian soldiers after the Siege of Kut, WW1
Indian soldiers in an emaciated condition after the Siege of Kut (1916), Mesopotamia (now Iraq), during the First World War. Date: circa 1916

Valparaiso, Chile - Avenida Brasil. Date: circa 1910

Two men on a street, one tall and slim, the other short and plump. Horace asks: Got such a thing as a spare fiver on you, old chap? The reply is unprintable. circa 1916

Coming from Lipton s... Going to Lipton s
An ingenious advertisement designed by Sir Thomas Lipton to attract customers to his shop

Young spiv with a cigar
A young spiv with a sweaty face, a thin moustache, a bowtie and a cigar. circa 1940s

Sketch of a young girl with self-portrait
Sketch of a young girl, with a self-portrait

Slimmer Extraordinaire! Before & After
Before & After - the remarkable results of going on a diet and how it affects ones choice of corset.... circa 1909

Gj Goschen / Vanity Fair
GEORGE JOACHIM GOSCHEN 1st VISCOUNT GOSCHEN British politician Date: 1831 - 1907

Churchill / Randolph / Vf 89
LORD RANDOLPH SPENCER CHURCHILL British politician Date: 1849 - 1895

Jonas Hanway / Eng 1787
JONAS HANWAY Traveller and philanthropist Date: 1712 - 1786

KRUPP PTG
ALFRED KRUPP German industrialist Date: 1812 - 1887

Immanuel Kant
IMMANUEL KANT German philosopher Date: 1724 - 1804

Mans top hat blown off on a windy day in March
A mans top hat is blown off over a cliff on a windy day by the sea in March. He waves his rolled umbrella in annoyance, but his dog seems unconcerned

Young man in studio photo, Mid Wales
A pale young man in a suit that looks too big for him, in the photographers studio, Mid Wales

Whitewashed Georgian house in Mid or South Wales
A whitewashed Georgian house in Mid or South Wales, with a plump man and a skinny boy standing in front of the entrance

Cell contents, Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire
The interior and meagre contents of a cell at Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire. The inmate sleeps on a plank bed covered by a thin mattress

Woman wheeling two babies in a pram
A woman wheeling two babies in a pram, between two trees in silhouette

A long-haired greyhound
An elegant, long-haired greyhound dog

A man and woman of Ceylon (Sri Lanka). A book of national types and costumes from the early 19th century

The Narrokar / W H Robinson
Many English lanes were designed only to accommodate the solitary horseman and most large modern cars are liable to get stuck in them (very humiliating for the driver)

Cars To Suit All Figures / W H Robinson
Fat cars, thin cars, cars to suit all. Please note: Credit must appear as (c) Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/Mary Evans Picture Library

Lighting in John Lennons study
Remarkable tall and thin coloured lighting in John Lennons study. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Princess Victoria and Prince Olaf of Norway
Princess Victoria (the fourth child and second daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) (1868 - 1936), wearing a veil or thin headscarf - with the future King Olaf V of Norway (1903 - 1991)

German poster campaign for the release of prisoners
German poster campaigning for the release of prisoners of war, depicting German soldiers being subjected to unpleasant working conditions in a labour camp

Turkish woman with parasol
Turkish woman standing with an open white parasol in traditional street costume

Turkish woman from Constantinople
Veiled turkish Woman from Constantinople, Turkey with a star in her hair and her scarf/veil covereing a bow on top of her head

Veiled Turkish Lady from a good Family with fine gloves and a fan

Vertical advertisement for Dunlop Tyres
A vertical enamel sign advertising Dunlop Tyres from Dunlop Stock. *EDITORIAL USE ONLY*

Chamberlain and the proposed corn tax
A satire on Joseph Chamberlains speech at Bingley Hall, where he produced two loaves (here babies, farmers and tea cups) to illustrate the impact of the proposed corn tax on the size of a loaf

Kudu Antelope Aldin
A young kudu antelope, around six months old

Burns / Cotters Saturday
THE COTTERs SATURDAY NIGHT His bonnet rev rently is laid aside, his lyart haffets wearing thin and bare; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide

Life / Saint Valentines Day 1924
It takes all sorts. A short plump lady and a tall thin man are speared together by Cupids arrow

Lear / Nonsense / Berlin
There was an Old Person of Berlin, whose form was uncommonly thin; Till he once, by mistake, was mixed up in a cake, so they baked that Old Man of Berlin

Zarzis, Tunisia - Ben Gardane Street - with interesting low-roofed thin-form mudbrick structures

Street Scene in Port Said, Egypt
Delightful photographic street Scene in Port Said, Egypt with a young man seated in an elaborate ornate doorway alongside a thin winding stair leading up into the town

The mausoleum of Khaje Rabi, Iran
The mausoleum of Khaje Rabi, about 6km outside Mashhad in Iran - now extensively restored. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

View toward The Pyramids Giza, Egypt
View across an irrigation channel and through some tall thin palm trees toward The Pyramids Giza, Cairo, Egypt

Pretty white orchid
A couple of fronds of a pretty white orchid plant spill out of a glossy grey vase with a thin elegant stem. Airbush painting by Malcolm Greenwmith

Egyptian Beauty and scenes from the country
An Egyptian beauty is framed in a diamond, surrounded by scenes from the country including the Pyramids and Sphinx at Giza, an avenue of Palm trees

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