The old sow in Distress, or the country parsons return from tithing, B...
Cartoon showing an obese parson on horseback, holding a pig and a chicken. Forms part of: British cartoon Prints collection (Library of Congress).
Miss Susan Barton: the mammoth lady, as exhibited at Barnum's American...
Gale, 4524 Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
William H. West's Big Minstrel Jubilee
D3810? U.S. Copyright Office Caption: The uncertainty of a sure thing. Created and "copyright 1900 by The Strobridge Litho Co, Cin'ti & New York." N.Y. no. 9007. Forms part of: Minstrel poster collection (Libra... More
A swell gent - Drawing. Public domain image.
(DLC/PP-1933:0112). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Chicago Tribune, Dec. 1, 1916.
Miss Susan Barton: the mammoth lady, as exhibited at Barnum's American...
Gale, 4524 Public domain photograph of portrait print, 17th-18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
French liberty - British slavery / Js. Gy. desn. et fect. pro bono pub...
A design in two compartments. On the left is a lean and ragged sansculotte, seated on a stool before an open hearth ravenously eating raw onions, while he warms his bare toes at the fire. He is rejoicing. On th... More
Photograph--New York - Public domain portrait print
Print shows fat woman with mouth open, half-length portrait, seated, facing right.
Milord Pouf montant à cheval - Public domain book illustration, Librar...
Print shows "Milord Pouf", an overweight Englishman, being hoisted onto a horse by three men using ropes, pulleys (block and tackle), and a jack. The horse is looking fearfully wide-eyed at the pospect of succe... More
Dottie and Lottie. No pork chops for me dearie ... I had a customer to...
Preparatory sketches for "Dottie and Lottie." Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).
Exercising the mounts / Frank A. Nankivell 1907.
Illustration shows a bloated William Jennings Bryan with a paper extending from a pocket labeled "Membership Fat Man's Club. W.J. Bryan", riding a diminutive Democratic donkey and William H. Taft riding a dimin... More
[Fat cook stirring a pot] - Public domain book illustration
Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1939:0060). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).
Puck magazine cover - Our national dime museum / Keppler.
Print shows a bloated Civil War veteran sitting on a chair beneath a sign that states "How the Fatman has grown. Number of Pensioners over 30 Years After the Close of the War 976,014. Number in waiting 200,000"... More
"Pride goeth before destruction" / J.S. Pughe.
Cartoon showing Richard "Boss" Croker as an obese balloon-like man, wearing ribbon "Kansas City Convention", being attacked from behind by a man "Hill" with a spear "N.Y. State Democracy". Illus. in: Puck, v. 4... More
Venison & Claret, or Sr. Humpy. Haunch, Bart. of Glutton Hall, British...
"A W.L. figure standing towards the left looking over his left shoulder. He is stout with an enormously protruding stomach..." (Source: George) V. 2. 22. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires preserved in... More
Miss Susan Barton: the mammoth lady, as exhibited at Barnum's American...
Gale, 4524 Public domain photograph of portrait print, 17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
French liberty - British slavery / Js. Gy. desn. et fect. pro bono pub...
A design in two compartments. On the left is a lean and ragged sansculotte, seated on a stool before an open hearth ravenously eating raw onions, while he warms his bare toes at the fire. He is rejoicing. On th... More
William H. West's Big Minstrel Jubilee
D3810? U.S. Copyright Office Caption: The uncertainty of a sure thing. Created and "copyright 1900 by The Strobridge Litho Co, Cin'ti & New York." N.Y. no. 9007. Forms part of: Minstrel poster collection (Libra... More
Pharoah's fat kine - pharoah's lean kine / IC., British Cartoon Print
Print shows, on the left, in England, two corpulent, jovial men and an equally rotund woman providing them with drink, possibly sherry, and on the right, in France, two listless, thin, bony women sitting on sof... More
Zones (old style) ; zones (new style)
Both images in same frame; old style zones at left. Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: This Giddy Globe / Peter... More
The girth of a nation Nelson Harding
Cartoon shows a young eagle that has fallen on the ground next to a hat labeled "U.S. Aerial Service." Forms part of: Rehse-Archiv für Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik.