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Ross and South BarrierThe Erebus and Terror amid the ice off the South Polar Ice Barrier, 700 km long, in the course of James Rosss 1839- 1843 Antarctic expedition Date: 1842
Ross in Pack IceThe Erebus and Terror in pack ice, in gale conditions, off the South Polar Ice Barrier, in the course of James Rosss 1839-1843 Antarctic expedition Date: January 1842
Cartoon, Metro Gate Closer, WW1Cartoon, The Metropolitan Anastasie, a woman working in the Paris Metro during the First World War, taking the place of a man who is away fighting
Girl & ticket collectorSilhouette of young girl hurrying to catch a train passing through the ticket barrier.Date: circa 1930
Berlin, Germany - postwar - French sector border postBerlin, Germany - postwar - Sign alerting that you are leaving the French-controlled sector. Date: circa 1947
Berlin, Germany - postwar - American sector border postBerlin, Germany - postwar - Sign warning that You are leaving the American Sector. Date: circa 1947
Merchant tribunal, Italy, 15th century.. Handcolored illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries
Sydney, Australia - Silver Mine - Broken HillSlide showing a photograph of a Silver mine. Broken Hill is Australias longest-lived mining city. In 1844, the explorer Charles Sturt saw and named the Barrier Range
Paris, France - Barriere des Champs Elysees. Date: circa 1850
Paris, France - Barriere de la Cunette. Date: 1830
Paris, France - Barrieres, Ball at Dancehall Just Outside. Date: 1855
Paris, France - Barrier of Montrouge. Date: 1860
Petrol station, Old Brompton Road, London SW7Brew Brothers petrol station in Old Brompton Road, London SW7, where a fire and explosion occurred in a basement store, 20 July 1957
Massey Shaw fireboat in action, River Thames, LondonThe London Fire Brigades Massey Shaw fireboat in action with hoses spraying, on the River Thames near the Thames Barrier at Woolwich, with firefighters on deck
Cricket Fielding (wrong!)A fielder demonstrates the incorrect way of fielding to stop the ball as he should be using the long barrier method. Date: 1888
Flanders: Crossing of Yser river barrierThe bridging of the Yser and Yser canal under fire, during the opening allied attack: Two of the British infantry and pack-horse bridges. Date: 1917
Toenga, Daughter of Maori Chief, New ZealandToenga, the only daughter of the celebrated Waraurangi, the most powerful chief of the Nga-ti-maru tribe, formerly inhabiting the Great Barrier Island, north of the mouth of Hauraki Gulf
Barrier across road near Les Boeufs, Western Front, WW1A barrier across a newly won road near Les Boeufs on the Western Front in France (Somme) during World War One. Date: circa 1916
1937 Coronation - spectators in Trafalgar SquareA section of the huge crowd in Trafalgar Square standing by the crush barrier after waiting all night to watch the Coronation procession of King George VI
The Supermarine 508, VX133, is escorted by the second prototype Swift, VV119, in its later Type 535 guise. This Swift went on to star as Prometheus in the film Sound Barrier
Eimeo and barrier reefIllustration (p.432) from Charles Darwins Journal of Researches, first illustrated edition 1890
Photograph of coral from the Yonge collection
Mrs Stephenson wearing a diving helmetPhotograph of Mrs Stephenson wearing a diving helmet. Great Barrier Reef expedition 1928-1929
Photograph of corals from the Yonge collectionPhotograph from the collection of Sir Charles Maurice Yonge (1899-1986) relating to the Great Barrier Reef Expedition (1927-1929), in the Archive of the Natural History Museum, London
Exercise Tideway at the Thames Barrier, Woolwich, SE London
Yoshiie composing poetry at the barrier Nakoso. Print shows samurai Minamoto Yoshiie with another samurai passing cherry trees. Date between 1843 and 1846
The actor Ichikawa Ebizo in the role of Shinozuka breaking through the barrier. Date 173-
Border post between Muntenia and TransylvaniaThe Border post between Muntenia and Transylvania at Predeal, Romania Date: circa 1906
Beach GroyneA study of the old groyne (a low wooden wall or barrier built into the sea from a beach), Worthing, Sussex, England. Date: 1960s
Khyber Pass - Border - NWFPKhyber Pass - Border between Afghanistan and North West Frontier Province. Date: 1909
Blizzard on BarrierPonies at the camp during a blizzard on the Barrier. Date: 1907 - 1909
Picking up PartyThe Nimrod picking up the Northern Party at the Drygalski Barrier. Date: 1907 - 1909
Shackleton on IceShackletons men on the Great Ice Barrier, during their Antarctic expedition. circa 1907
Newly Built M1 MotorwayA stretch of the newly-built M1 Motorway, near Little Linford, Buckinghamshire, England, looking south, towards Bow Brickhill, No crash barrier or traffic! Date: 1959 - 1960
The Italian / Austrian border at Thorl Date: circa 1920s
The Second Scott Polar Expedition at the BarrierCaptain Scotts expedition reached the Great Ross Barrier in January - February 1911 showing the immense height of the ice barrier, which in some places reached to 280 feet compared to the Terra Nova
The Steep Nature of the Shore Ice EdgeView demonstrating the difficulties of landing during the 1912 expedition to the South Pole. The barrier edge is perpendicular
New York SubwayEntrance to the New York subway station at 14th street and 6th avenue, downtown, in America
Two women with full veils on the Galata BridgeWhen Ataturk came to power and established the Republic, he felt it essential for the veil to be abolished in a modern society
The Mayors of Liverpool and Birkenhead Meet under the MerseyMargaret Beavan (centre), the Lord Mayor of Liverpool, shaking hands with the Mayor of Birkenhead (right) at the meeting of the two halves of the Mersey Tunnel, 1928
Proposal for a Thames Barrage, Gravesend, 1905Illustration showing a barrage of barrier and locks across the River Thames at Gravesend proposed by James Casey in 1905. The object of this proposal was to protect London against serious flooding
The East-West Frontier in Berlin, 1949Photograph showing a West Berlin policeman (on left) talking to a Soviet Sector policeman over an East-West frontier barrier, in Berlin, 1949
French Suffragettes in Paris, 1936Photograph showing a policeman attempting to end a suffragette demonstration in the Rue Royale, Paris, 1936. The suffragettes had formed a human barrier across the road to stop traffic
The Amundsen Antarctic Expedition camping on the Level BarriPhotograph showing the sledge team of the Amundsen Antarctic Expedition camping on the Level Barrier, on their way to the South Pole, 1911
The flooded fens around the Coffer Dam. Farmland drowned inThe flooded fens of the Eastern Counties. The flooding caused by numerous high tides which was hoped to be resolved by the building of the Coffer Dam The dam would act as a barrier to the assaults of
Popular Paris RestoLa Californie a popular working-class eating and drinking place, just outside the customs barrier at Montparnasse
KAZAN - 4The Barrier of Siberia
China Cholera 1911When cholera rages in Manchuria, the Great Wall serves as a barrier to keep out refugees seeking to enter China