Wares Collection

A Street Scene in Cairo, by Charles Robertson (1844-1891)

Brazil - Street vendor in Rio de Janeiro
Superb postcard from Brazil depicting Street vendor (seemingly specialising in pots, cans and pans) in Rio de Janeiro. He carries the majority of his wares in a large tin tub balanced on his head

Colombo, Sri Lanka - Native Boutique Date: circa 1920s

Tunisia - Arab Bazaar
Tunisia - an Arab dealer sitting in his shop, surrounded by his wares (pretty much everything you can imagine) including drapes, rugs, pots, a stuffed baby crocodile, swords, guns

Sandal Sellers 1930S
Twin sandal makers selling their wares in a bazaar

Impressive Tall Cactus Grove and pot seller - Mexico
Impressive Tall Mexican Fence Post Cactus Grove (Pachycereus Marginatus) and a pot seller (carrying his wares on his back) - Mexico. Date: 1910s

Arab Bazar, Tunis, Tunisia, North Africa. Also pictured on image 13924865. Date: circa 1909

The Market, Ghent
An etching depicting a Ghent market event full of life, with people browsing the wares of stalls, just outside an ecclesiastical building in northwest Belgium. Date: circa 1916

Melon sellers, Egypt
Melon sellers near the Suez Canal in Egypt offer up their wares. Date: circa 1930s

Man and woman of the Isle of Tanna, Vanuatu, 1818. They wear grass skirts and necklaces, the man holds a cudgel and the woman panpipes

Peasamt women of the environs of Baden, Germany, 1818. One holds a round shield. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Mary Anne Vennings A Geographical Present being Descriptions of the Principal

Trades in Regency England. Hop picking, South Down sheep and effects of gunpowder. Man cutting hops, women and children picking off the hops in Farnham 19

Johnny Newcome drinking grog in the cockpit with other middys (midshipmen), HMS Victory. Sextants, pistols and muskets hang from hooks on the walls, a tub of grog on the floor. The Cockpit

Shopping in the open air at Baden Baden
Shops within the Kurgarten in Baden Baden laying out their wares outdoors on tables for visitors, or open shop fronts so visitors could peruse in pleasant conditions. Date: 1909

Allegorical Representation of America
An allegorical representation of the products and inhabitants of America; various Native American men and women crowd by a small fortified wall by the water, carrying or moving animals, products

Market scene in pre-Columbian Tlatelolco
A market scene in the city state of Tlatelolco before the Spanish invasion. Various Mexica people crowd around market vendors in a colonnade selling wares such as pottery, animals skins, livestock

Display of wooden shoes, Brittany, Northern France
Display of wooden shoes (sabots) for sale in a Breton market, Brittany, Northern France. Each shoe is carved from a single piece of wood. Date: 1922

Door-to Door Salesman Date: 1948

Flower Market in Covent Garden, London 1848
Flower market held in Covent Garden, London. Number of Victorian ladies selecting potted plants from the wide range of wares displayed. Date: 1848

INDIAN BAZaR 1930S
Indian shopkeepers in the bazaars frequently squat on the ground behind their wares. The business of buying and selling takes time as both sides haggle for hours. Date: 1930s

18th century Mercer - Costume
A travelling salesman hawks his wares: ribbons, buttons, pins, feathers, braids, cloth & all manner of trinkets for female adornment. Date: 18th century

LONDON STREET PEDLARS
Inquisitive passers by gather round to inspect the goods offered by a London street pedlar. He has an assortment of wares including cigarettes and tools. Date: 1920s

Arab Perfume Maker - 12th century
An Arab perfumer selling and making his wares Date: 12th century

Orange Girl
London characters: an ORANGE GIRL offers her wares to passers-by in the street, a valuable source of vitamin C if they only knew it. Date: circa 1870

Occupation - Costermonger
London characters: costermonger Date: circa 1870

LONDON OYSTER SELLER
A street oyster-seller offers his wares at sixpence a dozen - and observes that they are going strong ! Date: 1896

RUM RUNNING USA 1923
RUM ROW Liquor carriers outside American territorial waters, off New Jersey, wait to unload their wares Date: 1923

MAORIS FIND REMAINS
The trade in human heads - Maoris find the heads of their relatives among the dealers wares on board his ship. Date: 1830

COSTERMONGER
A costermonger leads his donkey laden with vegetables through the streets calling for people to buy his wares Date: 1869

A Normandy Lad with his wares for sale - he certainly has the look of a cad or Joker ! Date: circa 1910

Algerian Shoeshine Boy. Date: circa 1907

Hardware Shop, Baghdad, Iraq. Date: circa 1920s

c. 1880s Italy - Italy, probably Sicily street vendors, boys
c.1880s Italy - southern Italy, probably Sicily street vendor with his wares - boy selling vegetables

Butchers Shop of J G Randall of Muswell Hill Road, London. Date: circa 1905

London Trade Card - Mrs Holts Italian Warehouse at the two Olive Posts in the Strand. Selling Italian silks, satins, velvets, damasks, fans, hats, as well as various Italian foodstuffs. 18th century

Kosovo - Street Market at Pristina
Street Market at Pristina (Prishtina), the capital and largest city of Kosovo. Date: circa 1906

Llangwm cockle woman, Haverfordwest, South Wales
An elderly cockle woman from the coastal village of Llangwm rests outside St Marys Church in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales. She is on her way to the Portfield area of the town

A Japanese vegetable seller and Geisha
A Japanese vegetable seller, his wares in many baskets hung on a long yolk, sells to a young geisha woman

Grotesque Fish Merchants - Algeria
Grotesque Fish Merchants, shouting their wares up to the houses - Algeria. Date: circa 1903

Man selling ginger beer, 1870
Man selling glasses of ginger beer from a stall in the street in London, 1870. Date: 1870

Gansevoort Market in New York City, USA
The Gansevoort Market is located in the Meatpacking District in New York City. For decades it was a market hosting farmers from miles around who came to sell their wares. Date: 1905

French Trade Show - Algerian Ceramics of E Soupireau on display. One wonders whether the fine gentleman on the left is Monsieur Soupireau himself

Shopkeeper with his wares, Thailand. Date: circa 1970s

Pedlar Sells his Wares
A pedlar (or chapman) shows his wares to the inhabitants of a country village. Date: 17th century

Joe Haynes / Quack Doctor
Joe Haynes, a quack doctor out selling his wares Date: 18th century

Facade of Abbey of Saint-Gilles, France
Facade of the Abbey of Saint-Gilles is a Benedictine monastery in Saint-Gilles, southern France - two vegetable sellers sit in front selling their wares. Date: circa 1910

French charlatan selling his wares in the street
A French charlatan selling his wares in the street. Date: 18th century

Pueblo Indians selling wares, New Mexico, USA
Pueblo Indians selling their wares at a railway station in New Mexico, USA. Date: 1902

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