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  • Boer War: thirsty ambulance men queuing up at a beer tent. Process print by Swain after F. Dadd after A. Lindsay Twite.
  • Members of a German students' and alumni organization (Studentenverbindung) standing outdoors, drinking beer; a mountainous river landscape in the background. Lithograph, ca. 1831.
  • Neptune presiding over a businessman making money through investment and a man drinking beer; representing the phlegmatic temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler.
  • Neptune presiding over a businessman making money through investment and a man drinking beer; representing the phlegmatic temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler.
  • Three coopers working to repair barrels in a German monastery cellar are served with tankards of beer. Etching by Carl Vaditz after Eduard Grützner.
  • Chemistry: vessels for heating with furnaces, including apparatus for bathing, making beer, making vinegar, etc. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • Major Murray, having been shot by Mr Roberts in the latter's rooms in London, retaliates by attacking Roberts with a beer bottle. Coloured lithograph, 1861.
  • A multiple-choice question about the harmful effects of beer advertising a quiz on alcohol abuse. Colour lithograph by Nationaal Instituut voor Gezondheidsbevordering en Ziektepreventie, 2000.
  • A man sitting indoors with tobacco pipe, jar and beer jug, behind a woman watches two card players. Engraving by Merot, junior, after A. van Ostade.
  • John Bull making hop-tea in front of a hop grower and his workers; representing adulteration of beer by brewers. Chromolithograph by T. Merry, 1890, after himself.
  • A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving by T. Cook, c. 1800, after W. Hogarth.
  • An unprotected penis becoming intoxicated by beer, to show the value of condoms as a protection against unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases including AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • To John Dudman, family grocer & provision merchant, oil and Italian warehouseman, wine, spirit, and beer merchant : 56 Rosslyn Hill, Hampstead, N.W. : 5 Belsize Park Terrace.
  • A leering bear with soiled clerical bands, a pot of beer and a club is pictured behind a dog urinating on pamphlets. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
  • A patient being advised by a doctor not to drink beer in the morning, he retorts by saying there was no brandy available. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1876.
  • A white telephone advertising AIDS counselling services offered by health authorities and and voluntary organizations; with the message ''One does not get AIDS from beer". Colour lithograph by Papen, Hansen, 199-.
  • A skull, a tumbler of beer and a bottle of alcoholic drink; advertising the danger of alcohol as a cause of industrial accidents in Czechoslovakia, and contrasting it with milk. Colour lithograph, 193- (?).
  • A coachman holding a full tankard of beer in one hand and caressing a lady with the other; verses in Dutch, French and English below. Etching by J. Punt, 1756, after G. van der Myn.
  • A doctor asking a patient's wife if she has taken his temperature; she replies that she used the barometer to take his temperature and that, as he was very dry she gave him some beer. Wood engraving by G. King, 1911.
  • South Africa: a group of miners working underground at De Beers diamond mine. Photograph by J.E.M., 1896.
  • South Africa: bread carried on trolleys for the African workers at De Beers Mine. Photograph by Hugh Marshall, 1905.
  • South Africa: an employee of De Beers counting the diamonds mined that day. Photograph by J.E.M., 1896.
  • South Africa: an employee of De Beers counting the diamonds mined that day. Photograph by J.E.M., 1896.
  • Professor Yandell Henderson testifying before a U.S. Senate subcommittee that beers containing 3-4% alcohol by volume were not intoxicating. Photograph, 1932.
  • A woman in a black costume, wearing a small hat and long black gloves, smiles at the viewer while standing behind a screen. Chromolithograph, 1892, after Jan van Beers.