Height Collection

Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta) on a plant, sunbathing

Inter-City 125
15th May 1978: The Scotsman, the high speed, Inter-City 125 train, gliding out of Londons Kings Cross station, on its way to Edinburgh

Boots The Chemist
October 1916: The exterior of Boots the Chemist shop in a British high street. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Trevithicks Railway
Richard Trevithicks London Railway and Locomotive at Euston Square, run as an entertainment before the potential of his new high pressure steam engine became fully realised

Lunch Atop A Skyscraper
While New York's thousands rush to crowded restaurants and congested lunch counters for their noon day lunch

Workers Trimming Great Green Wall on Ladder
Workers stand on a tall ladder to trim the Great Green Wall, a 36-foot tall yew hedge encircling Oakley Hall. The hedge was planted in 1720 by the first Earl of Bathurst

Wall Gecko (Tarentola mauritanica), Majorca, Spain, Europe

First Aerial Photo
The first aerial photograph showing the Place de l Etoile, Paris, taken by Nadar in 1858 from an altitude of 520 meters in a tethered balloon. (Photo by Nadar/Getty Images)

East Midtown Skyline
Aerial view from the East River looking west of the East Midtown Manhattan skyline, New York, New York, 1950s or 1960s

Dog, boxer, brown, portrait

Ice cubes

Lunch Atop A Skyscraper
29 Sep 1932, Manhattan, New York City, New York State, USA --- Construction workers eat their lunches atop a steel beam 800 feet above ground

Man Mapping Terrain from Balloon
(Original Caption) Aerial reconnaissance before introduction of aerial cameras, circa 1870. French officer mapping terrain. At left of gondola, parachute in case balloon is attacked

Tall and Short Circus Acts
Londy, the tallest woman is 7 feet 4 inches, 23 years old, and weighs 320 lbs; the shortest man, Gustorf Schoffart, is 40 inches, 20 years old and weighs 21 lbs

Workman Drinks Tea on High Plank
(Original Caption) London, England- Height has no terrors for this workman, as he drinks his tea astride an unsupported plank high over the Strand in London

Houdini Hanging Above Subway Tracks
Spectators watch as escape artist Harry Houdini frees himself from a straightjacket while he hangs from a hook above a subway

Lee Barnes Pole Vaults in Olympics
Lee Barnes, a 17-year-old high school student from Hollywood High in Los Angeles, wins the gold medal in pole vaulting at the 1924 Olympics in Paris

Golfer Teeing Off on Girder High Above City
(Original Caption) Playing golf in mid-air: Stunts. A cigarette smoking golfer and his caddy teeing off on the girder of a building under construction high over an unidentified cityscape

Movie Still from "White Hell of Pitz Palu"
Movie Still from the 1929 German movie "White Hell of Pitz Palu", which starred Leni Riefenstahl

Washington Heights
View of Washington Heights in New York City. View taken from catwalk of Hudson River Bridge

Man Performing Optical Illusion with Chrysler Building
(Original Caption) An odd photographic trick placed this steelworker's finger on the lofty pinnacle of the Chrysler Building

Construction Worker at Empire State Building
A steel worker hangs stories above the streets of Manhattan while holding onto the end of a crane hook at the construction site of the Empire State Building

Construction Workers Cooking Lunch over Fire
(Original Caption) Noon hour on the top of the mooring mast and tower of the gigantic Empire State Building, rising on the site of the old Waldorf

Empire State Building in 1931
(Original Caption) New York, New York: Empire State Building towering above the buildings of midtown, in the year of its completion

Men Washing Windows of Empire State Building
(Original Caption) It may be painful for the ant-like spectators in the street below

Shipwreck Kelly Standing On Pole
(Original Caption) Portrait of Shipwreck Kelly perched atop a pole, May 1932

Construction Workers Resting on Steel Beam Above Manhattan
Four construction workers take a nap, balanced on a steel girder hung 800 feet over Manhattan, during the construction of the RCA Building

Construction Workers Resting on Steel Beam Above Manhattan
Four construction workers take a nap, balanced on a steel girder hung 800 feet over Manhattan, during the construction of the RCA Building

Primo Carnera Stands with Sparring Partners
(Original Caption) 6/19/1933-Pompton Lakes, NJ- If you don't think Primo Carnera is quite so tall

Giant Robert Wadlow with Actresses
Actresses Maureen O'Sullivan and Ann Morris stand next to giant Robert Wadlow. Wadlow was eight feet, eight and one half inches tall at the time this photo was taken

Headstand Over Manhattan
Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly celebrates Friday the 13th by sitting on his head on a board stuck out from the 54th floor of the Chanin Building, and dunking doughnuts over Manhattan

Workmen Smoking Atop Gargoyle
A man lights a fellow worker's cigarette as they take a break on a Chrysler Building gargoyle

Joe Louis Receiving Army Physical Exam
(Original Caption) 1/12/42-New York, New York: It's six feet and two inches of champion Joe Louis, as he was measured by Sgt

Man Using Stature Stretching Device
(Original Caption) 4/21/1944- Unscrupulous mail order swindlers have sold numerous devices for stretching the human frame, until apprehended by the postal authorities

Woman Working at Shipyard
(Original Caption) 5/23/1944-Los Angeles, CA: One of every five workers among those who have set records at Calship, are women. This is Betty Smith, 22, a pipe-burner, on the job. BPA 2 #4236

Movie Still of The Sin of Harold Dibbledock
Harold Diddlebock (played by Harold Lloyd) being hung by one leg from a skyscraper's window in the 1947 film The Sin of Harold Diddlebock, also known as Mad Wednesday

Photographer Standing on Mountain Ledge
A photographer for the United States Geologic Survey photographing a valley from a high ledge protruding from a cliff face

Dirigible Docked at Empire State Building
(Original Caption) Dirigible establishing contact with Empire State Building tower. While designed for this purpose, it did not prove practical

Boys Measuring Height
(Original Caption) Robert Allan Putnam and Robert Martin Corbett take turns measuring each others height against a chart tacked to a wall. Photo circa 1950

Trajectory of Mickey Mantle's Home Run
(Original Caption) New York, NY: Converging arrows show the spot where a prodigious home run blasted by Mickey Mantle landed

Surveyors Measuring Mountain--Illus
(Original Caption) Illustration depicting the measurement of Whiteface Mountain using a spirit level and graduated rod. Undated

"Metered Man" -- 17Th Century Woodcut
(Original Caption) Seventeenth century woodcut entitled "Metered Man, " depicting a man standing with a meter stick

High Challenge
Bob Watson, Kentucky guard, leaps in vain attempt to take the ball away from Bill Spivy during a practice session at Madison Square Garden in preparation for their game against St

Bob Mathias Practicing for Olympics
American decathlete Bob Mathias whips over the bar as he practices pole-vaulting during the 1952 Summer Games. Bob won the decathlon championship as a seventeen-year-old in the 1948 Olympic Games

People Hanging Out from atop the Statue of Liberty
(Original Caption) The photographer took this new look at the Statue of Liberty on it's 70th Birthday. Visitors may be seen leaning out from under the spiked crown

Tom Kerr Greeting World's Smallest Woman
(Original Caption) "Smallest Woman" Greeted in Glasgow

Wilt Chamberlain Standing with Teammates
(Original Caption) 12/29/1957-Kansas City, MO- Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain, seven-foot Kansas center

Wilt Chamberlain Talking with Short Reporter
Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain, 7-foot member of the Harlem Globetrotters, talks with 5-feet 4-inch UPI reporter Aldo Beckman at a press conference

Wilt Chamberlain with Flight Attendant
(Original Caption) 7/2/1959-New York, NY- Seven-foot two-inch Wilt Chamberlain pretends to use the head of Jo Ann Heidenreich, Pan American World Airways stewardess

F. Howard & W. Mccovey Back To Back
(Original Caption) 7/21/1959-San Diego, CA: Big men with possible futures even bigger compare heights at the Pacific Coast League All-Star game, won by the South 5-2

Tallest and Shortest ROTC Cadets
(Original Caption) 10/19/1960-Storrs

Wilt Chamberlain Leaping
(Original Caption) 12/12/61-New York, NY- High and mighty is Philadelphia's Wilt Chamberlain as he leaps up toward the Madison Square Garden ceiling to pick off a rebound against Detroit

Wilt Chamberlain Jumping Holding Ball
(Original Caption) 3/4/1962-New York, NY- New York Knickerbocker players appear helpless to stop Philadelphia's seven-foot-one Wilt Chamberlain during a Knicks-Warriors game

Mount Rushmore Repairman Working on Lincoln's Nose
(Original Caption) Tourists Never See Mount Rushmore from the Top. Looking more like a pesky fly than a repairman, Mike O'Mera check's Lincoln's nose for cracks in the granite

Bill Bradley Shooting Basket
Princeton forward Bill Bradley (42) rises above a defending Vernon Smith (4) and fellow Wichita State defenders for a shot

View of St. Louis Gateway
Spectators watch from across the Mississippi River as cranes carefully maneuver the final section of the Gateway Arch into place

Olympian Bob Seagren Attempting Jump
(Original Caption

Boys Playing Outside Harlem Apartment House
(Original Caption) Larry, 6, and Ronnie, 5, play with a dog outside their Harlem apartment house. Many of us have seen the outside of Harlem, and neighborhoods around the country that are like it

Karl Wallenda Walking Tight Wire
(Original Caption) Starting from the right field roof, high wire artist Karl Wallenda makes his way across the 600-foot tight wire 150 feet above Busch Memorial Stadium while 23

College Students Climbing the Walls
The coming of winter weather has some students climbing the walls at Illinois Benedictine College, west of Chicago

Corn Stalks in Australia
(Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

China famous landmark great wall and mountains

Dried chilli peppers

Water chestnut, water caltrop (Trapa natans), Hortobagy ponds, Hungary, Europe

Green Shield Bug (Palomena prasina), larva

Colorful bath pearls

Cockchafer, May bug (Melolontha)

Small black natural stone paving texture

Organic eggs in a basket

Hamburg TV Tower, Heinrich-Hertz-Turm, radio telecommunication tower, Hamburg, Germany

Financial District Cityscape
Aerial view from the East River looking northwest of the financial district and east side skyline of lower Manhattan, New York, New York, mid 1960s

Aspen trees

Outline and flag of Romania, 3D

Outline and flag of South Africa, 3D

Cut spit cake

Fresh green chili peppers

Speckled Yellow moth (Pseudopanthera macularia)

Heartleaf iceplant, baby sun rose (Aptenia cordifolia), Cyprus island, Greece, Europe

Open grave in a cemetery

Red coffee berries (Coffea arabica) on a bed of coffee beans with coffee leaves

Oblong-leaved sundew or spoonleaf sundew (Drosera intermedia) in its natural bog habitat, Birr, Offaly, Midlands, Republic of Ireland, Europe

Fairy Foxglove, starflower (Erinus alpinus), Ireland, Europe

Apricot, plums and peaches in plastic cups, Wachau, Lower Austria, Austria, Europe

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