Assistant Collection (page 8)

Costume / Shoe Shop
Two elegant, society ladies wearing fur stoles, hats & gloves patronise a shoe shop where the more practically garbed shop assistant sees to their every whim

Boy at Tailors Shop
A young boy in a sailor blouse is measured for a new outfit. His mother, in a fox fur stole, looks on. Tailors sit cross legged on a table while another cuts cloth

Trying on Shoes / Photo
A rather glamorous lady wearing gloves, seamed stockings and fur-trimmed coat tries on a pair of shoes with the help of an assistant while her companion smokes

Houdini Exposes Trick
Houdini demonstrates how with the help of an assistant, a skilful medium can exchange a blank slate for a marked one in mid-seance

Shop Assistant 1883
A shop-girl

Hindostan Woman
A woman of Hindostan. She is either an assistant in a jewelers shop, showing off the goods, or she is doing an elaborate dance which involves jewelry... Date: 1722

Back to the Grindstone
A grinder and his assistant sharpening knives or other tools on a grindstone

Jt Arnold Bootmakers
Mr J T Arnold, bootmaker, stands outside his shop with his assistant : he sells laces and polish, repairs boots and shoes and makes boots to order. Location unknown

Fashionable Frenchwoman visits her couturier
A fashionable Frenchwoman visits her couturier

A Farrier at work, Worcestershire
A Farrier at work, fitting a shoe to a large working horse, Worcestershire. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd

Paris Street Magician
A Parisian street magician entertains the crowd, performing a trick with a member of the audience, or his assistant, and a large baton

Gold-Beater 1827
A gold-beater and his assistant hammering gold into ingots with special hammers

Dc Solander / Round Eng
DANIEL CARL SOLANDER Swedish botanist, assistant to Linnaeus

The Showman
A street entertainer sets up his stand, while his assistant blows his trumpet to attract an audience

Cap Vendors Shop, China
CHINA A cap vendors shop in Canton; a customer smokes a long pipe while another is helped with his choice of caps; an assistant makes tea

Sculpting Animals
Waterstone Hawkins and an assistant in his workshop, creating the prehistoric animal sculptures for the grounds of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham

Knife Thrower / Circa 1880
A knife thrower in leotard and tights prepares to throw another blade at his blindfolded assistant who is tied down to make sure she doesn t accidently flinch

Strawberry Seller 1877
A young woman and her boy assistant sell strawberries from the back of a cart in London

Apothecary 1505
An apothecary in his shop instructs his assistant in the use of the various drugs in his repertoire

Phone Box in Shop
Before the introduction of telephone kiosks, instruments were frequently made access- -ible to the public in shops such as this pharmacy where an assistant assist a customer

Lung Test / Monkey
A veterinary surgeon and his assistant test a monkeys lungs at the zoo hospital

Choosing a Chorus Girl - a producer and his assistant assess candidates for their next revue : C B Cochran was the best-known British impresario in this field

The Shooting Gallery
Visitors at the Shooting Gallery Mr Smallweed, carried in by two beggars, and Judy pay a visit to George Rouncewell and his assistant Phil Squod

Pyne - Pottery
A POTTERY A potter and his assistant making red pottery, with a young boy to help

First Day at School 2
The teachers assistant receives Mary and Willie at the school door

Japanese Paramedics
The traveling doctor in his distinctive dress is a common and often welcome sight in rural Japan : his assistant carries a box of medicaments of questionable efficacy

17th C Taylor
Taylor in his workshop cutting cloth while an assistant sews

A Mountebank
Mountebanck or Charlatan or Ciarlatano with patent medicines and monkey assistant

Elixir of Life
The alchemist Margrave prepares the ELIXIR OF LIFE with the help of the Veiled Woman named Ayesha, and the narrator as assistant

C16 Alchemists
An alchemist and his assistant heat the substances whose essence will collect in the flasks at the top of the apparatus, shedding impurities as they rise up the column

Alchemists Lab
An alchemist works at his furnace while his assistant feels the heat

MENs & WOMENs GLOVES
A lady tries on some gloves. An advertisement showing womens gloves with a decorative stitched cuff & a pair of mens gloves

Animal Magnetism
Satire on the gullibility of the public - a monkey mesmerises the audience while his assistant picks their pockets

Dee and Kelley
DR JOHN DEE and his assistant EDWARD KELLEY (with whom he exchanged wives from time to time) working magic

Boyle and Papin
Sir Robert Boyle and his assistant, Denis Papin, at work in the laboratory

Curry&rice / Magistrate
A joint (=assistant) magistrate reads the newspaper on the veranda

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