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  • Hank, world's tallest bartender, 7 ft 8 inches : Terry, world's shortest bartender, 4ft 11 inches : see us at Bradley's 5 and 10, longest bar in the world : Fillmore Street, between Geary & Post, San Francisco.
  • Hank, world's tallest bartender, 7 ft 8 inches : Terry, world's shortest bartender, 4ft 11 inches : see us at Bradley's 5 and 10, longest bar in the world : Fillmore Street, between Geary & Post, San Francisco.
  • An obliging barmaid drawing beer. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1833.
  • An obliging barmaid drawing beer. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1833.
  • A pretty barmaid mixing a drink in a glass. Coloured lithograph, c. 1825.
  • Elinour Rummin, a well known landlady of an ale-house. Line engraving.
  • Elinour Rummin, an English ale-wife, with a tankard in each hand. Engraving with letterpress, 1813 1624.
  • A lank old man at a bar asks a plump barmaid for a glass of gin. Coloured etching, c. 1830.
  • A doctor with a garland of pill boxes, bottles and a clyster pipe; a publican with pipes, different bottles and a punch bowl. Etching after T. Rowlandson.
  • A drunken party with sailors and their women drinking, smoking, and dancing wildly as a band plays. Reproduction of an etching by C. H., c. 1825, after G. Cruikshank.
  • A Dutch country tavern with six men drinking and smoking at a table and others by the bar. Lithograph by F. Hanfstaengl, 1836, after A. van Ostade, 1663.
  • A busy gin palace bar with customers buying drinks. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, c. 1842.
  • Three women in a gin shop divert the landlady's attention while a match boy steals her money. Mezzotint, c. 1765.