Assistants Collection

Butchers shop, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
An impressive display of meat and poultry outside a butchers shop at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, with the butcher and assistants posing for their photo on the pavement. circa 1900

Butchers Shop, High Street, Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex
W Snelling Butchers Shop, 11 High Street, Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex. circa 1900

General Store at Orphan Homes of Scotland, Bridge of Weir
The general store at the Orphan Homes of Scotland, Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire. Jars of sweets feature prominently on its shelves

Kerensky / Assistants / 1917
ALEKSANDR FYODOROVICH KERENSKY Russian Revolutionary leader with two of his assistants in 1917

Interior of a kitchen. Facsimile from an engraving
Interior of a kitchen. Butcher eviscerating a pig and people preparing the meat. Facsimile from an engraving in Calendarium Romanum, by Jean Staeffler, published in Tubingen, Germany, 1518

Byzantines, 1000-1200. From left to right: emperor, court assistants and prelate's costume. Chromolithography. Historia Universal, by Cesar Cantu. Volume V, 1884

Men assisting Howard Carter with Tutankhamuns tomb
The men assisting Mr Howard Carter: the three head men (at back) who are helping Mr Carter to pack and remove the objects from Tutankhamuns tomb to that of Seti II. 1923

Comic postcard, Two shop assistants Date: 20th century

Worshipful Company of Vintners, City of London
Worshipful Company of Vintners, livery company of the City of London Date: 18th century

Members of NUTGW campaigning
Members of NUTGW (National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers)

Laying big main water pipes, Southwark and Vauxhall 1900
Photograph showing engineers and assistants lifting up heavy large circular piping with a crane ready to be put underground, in the streets of South London

Four shop workers line up for a photograph in a well-stocked grocery store

Two women pose for their photograph in a bakers shop. Date: c. 1953
Two women pose for their photograph in a bakers shop. Date: c.1953

Exact time, France 1880
The unification and distribution of time using pneumatic chronometers, France - scene in the shop where the clocks are sold. Date: 1880

Guglielmo Marconi with his Assistants Kemp and Paget, behind is the experiments kite. Date: 12th December 1901

A German Chemist (or Alchemist!) and his assistants busy in a chemical laboratory. Date: 17th century

PARIS DRESSMAKER
Interior of a dressmakers in Paris, showing a lady sitting while the shop assistants fetch, carry, cut up, and measure fabric. Date: circa 1760

BEWICK AT WORK
THOMAS BEWICK The eminent engraver and his assistants making woodcuts of stuffed birds. Date: 1753 - 1828

German Chemist (or Alchemist!) and his assistants
A German Chemist (or Alchemist!) and his assistants busy in a chemical laboratory. Date: circa 1600

Woollands store in Knightsbridge by Matania
The Christmas Shopping Season - A Sphere artist visits a West-End House. A scene in the costume salon of Messrs. Woollands well-known house in Knightsbridge, the centre of fashion

International Tea Company Stores Ltd
Staff in the doorway of the International Tea Company Stores grocery shop, c.1910. Founded in 1878, International Tea Co

Comic postcard, Mother and son in department store Date: 20th century

Air raid on Oxford Street
The front cover of The Bystander features a shop assistant rescuing two mannequins after an Oxford Street department store is hit by a Luftwaffe bombing raid

Graham and Withers butchers shop, Bromley, Kent
Arthur Graham and Albert William Withers, butchers shop, 80 College Road, Bromley, Kent -- an amazing array of meat and poultry, with shop owners and assistants standing ready to serve

Tomb of Pope Julius II (1443-1513). 1505-1545. By Michelange
Tomb of Pope Julius II (1443-1513). 1505-1545. Built by Michelangelo (Michelangelo Buonarroti) (1475-1564) and his assistants. Detail. San Pietro in Vincoli Church. Rome. Italy

F Rush newsagent, Paradise Street, Marylebone, London
F Rush newsagent, tobacconist and confectioner, Paradise Street (now Moxon Street), off Marylebone High Street, London, with staff and customers posing outside. circa 1920

Cubs in the gift shop at Baden Powell House, London
Three cubs in the gift shop of Baden Powell House, South Kensington, London, chatting to two assistants. The building was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1961. Date: circa 1960s

Ancient Roman costume (men)
Ancient Roman costume for men -- peasants, travellers, nobles, a priest and assistants

Wellington, New Zealand - Oriental Bay
Ambala district in the state of Haryana, India - A Bamboo Merchant and two young assistants/apprentices (his sons?) stringing a charpoy. A Charpoy is a bed or cot used in India

Interior of Bazaar, Fort William, Calcutta, India
Interior of Bazaar, Fort William, Calcutta (Kolkata), India, with sales counters and staff. Date: circa 1910s

Cairo shop assistants, Egypt

Girolamo Genga
GIROLAMO GENGA Italian artist and architect, accompanied by two comely female assistants and the tools of his trade. Date: 1476 - 1551

Mrs. A. B Marshalls showroom for kichen furnishings 1887
Showroom at 32 Mortimer Street, Regent Street, London, with kitchen furniture and French Italian and American goods. Date: 1887

F Foster, Earlsfield Tobacco Stores, Wandsworth, SW London. Date: circa 1920s

Courtney Duckett antique shop, Crawford Street, London W
Courtney Duckett antique and curio shop, 109 and 110 Crawford Street, Baker Street, Marylebone, London W. circa 1910

R W Herriott, Greengrocer Fruiterer, Marine Parade, Brighton
R W Herriott, Greengrocer and Fruiterer, Marine Parade, Brighton, Sussex. circa 1900

Staff of Fowlers, 56 Marylebone Lane, London
Staff of Fowlers fruiterer and florist, 56 Marylebone Lane, London, standing outside the shop. Date: circa 1905

A Japanese sales assistant stands at a shop counter next to some ties. Date: 1932

Picture of St Theobald
Illustration of ceremony with key noting: 1. Place of the Masters, 2. Place of apprentices, 3. Grand Master, 4. Orator, 5. Secretary, 6. The Adept, 7. Master of the ceremonies, 8&9

Market Reports - Chinese Steady
Market Reports postcard - Chinese (market) Steady

Glider being prepared for flight by Orville and assistants; a number of reporters stand off to the right. Date 1911

Royal wedding 1893 - buying trousseau materials
Buying materials for the wedding trousseau of Princess May of Teck(later the Duchess of York)

Measuring coffee
Two girls measure coffee at the Dutch Coffee Shop, Landskrona, Sweden 1910. Date: 1910

Scenes in a dress shop
Scenes in an elegant dress shop, with assistants showing various items of clothing to their clients. 1924

Lief Akerlof & Beaver Scouts
Lief Akerlof, assistants & beaver scouts. circa 1980s

Sales assistants outside a dress shop
A group of well-presented young women - presumably sales assistants - stand in front of the windows of a dressmakers and outfitters shop

Shopping in Regent Street, London, 1849
Engraving showing a lady (centre) returning to her carriage, after completing her purchases in Regent Street, during the London Season of 1849

Salesmen on Strike
Shop assistants go on strike

Scene in a photographers studio, example of portrait making
Portraiture in the early twentieth century. A photographer entertaining his subject while his assistants capture her photograph

Record Sales Foreseen
A wholesale distributors forecast record sales as their new glamorous sales woman leaves the warehouse with two little monkey assistants. Illustration by Lawson Wood

Queuing for vaccinations
An outbreak of smallpox during October 1922. An illustration of female assistants at Harrods taking their turn to be vaccinated

Engravers Studio
An engraver and his assistants at work in a French atelier

Death / Funerals / Burial
When the corpse has been laid in the grave the assistants throw earth on it

Flattering Bonnet 1828
Judging from Appearance, a canny shop assistant infers that a bonnet being tried on by the wife takes years off her age by mistaking her for her husbands daughter

Fashionable Frenchwoman visits her couturier
A fashionable Frenchwoman visits her couturier

Industry / Cutlery 1827
A cutler and his assistants sharpening knives at a grinding wheel

Pearly King / Buttons
A pearly King looks at pearly buttons with two shop assistants

School of Cookery / 1873
At the school of cookery at the International Exhibition in South Kensington, London, Mr Buckmaster lectures from a pulpit while his assistants prepare the food

Women Working
Girls learning the art of salesmanship at the Westminster School of Retail Distribution, London

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