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  • A draught-horse standing in a barn surrounded by ducks and beer-barrels. Engraving.
  • Ballooning: hydrogen barrels and other equipment used in ballooning. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1803.
  • A Scotsman and a Native American man smoking pipes by barrels of tobacco. Coloured engraving.
  • Ancon, Panama Canal Zone: a mosquito oil plant interior showing rows of barrels. Photograph, 1910.
  • Barclay and Perkins brewery, Southwark: visitors in a store for vats and barrels. Wood-engraving, 1847.
  • A cooper and his assistants making waterbutts and barrels for wine and beer. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • Panama (?): unhygienic water barrels alongside a wooden house; resident children in the background. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • Water-sellers filling barrels with water from a water fountain in Madrid. Wood engraving by C. Roberts, 1876.
  • A Scotsman with a rifle, sword and shield guarding barrels (of tobacco?). Wood-engraving, mid-19th century.
  • A Scotsman with a rifle, sword and shield guarding barrels (of tobacco?). Wood-engraving, mid-19th century.
  • Malaria control supplies, Italy: large metal barrels being unloaded from a truck by three men. Photograph, 1940/1950 (?).
  • A market in which heavy barrels and sacks are weighed on scales. Chromolithograph by Thurwanger Frères after Ferdinand Séré.
  • Engineering: rolling mill used to produce gun barrels, with different stages in producing the shape shown below. Engraving c.1861.
  • Malaria control equipment, Italy: men setting up some equipment, with metal barrels of supplies in the background. Photograph, 1940/1950 (?).
  • Textiles: silk dyeing, several vats and barrels (top), a large lead [?] tank (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • This is the age of plastics and in plastic barrels and boxes we are leading the way... / Yzermans & Co.
  • Saint-Malo, Brittany: women washing clothes in barrels, carrying washing in baskets and hanging items from windows. Etching by L. Lhermitte, 1881.
  • Two mules laden with barrels walking along a mountain path with their drover at a distance behind them. Etching by J. D. Both.
  • Three coopers working to repair barrels in a German monastery cellar are served with tankards of beer. Etching by Carl Vaditz after Eduard Grützner.
  • A family are shelling peas in a barn with old barrels in it. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas, 1760, after J.B. Greuze.
  • A family are shelling peas in a barn with old barrels in it. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas, 1760, after J.B. Greuze.
  • James Sadler setting off on the proposed first crossing of the Irish Sea from Dublin by balloon, 1812; with details of the hydrogen barrels and equipment. Engraving.
  • People reaching for alcoholic drink falling from a pile of barrels of liquor likened to the upas-tree; skeletons litter the ground. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, c. 1842.
  • Three poor men burdened with barrels of alcohol, being freed by a man from the Temperance Society, while a woman looks on. Wood-engraving by S. Barr, c. 1840, with letterpress.
  • A man and woman carrying barrels of water on their heads: Conference on water sanitation for the urban poor in Kenya. Colour lithograph by the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, 2006.
  • A salt works: one man is feeding a furnace as others use shovels to transfer the dried salt from the pans into barrels. Mixed method print by P. Herwegen after Hans Bruner.
  • A figure composed of barrels batters the drooping head of a thistle; representing the forced resignation of Lord Melville following implications of malversation and the vote on Whitbread's motion. Aquatint by J. Sayer, 1805.
  • alpha/beta barrel, alanine racemase
  • Mosquito repellent oil contained in a drip-barrel. Photograph, 1910.
  • Artificial respiration by rolling a man prone on a barrel.