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Buying produce from a stall in a German village market selling chickens and eggs. Date: 1916
A long queue to buy railway tickets - and an opportunity for casual flirtation ! Date: 1872
Buying Team Souvenirs Date: 1948
Buying Travel Insurance Date: 1950
WW2 - English schoolboys buy vegetables from school gardenWW2 - English schoolboys buying vegetables from the school garden. Date: circa 1941
Hats through the agesA page of various womens and mens hats through the centuries. Date: 1930
Poultry show at the Crystal Palace 1870Poultry show at the Crystal Palace, at the same time as the cattle show was being held at Islington. There was above 1100 pens of fowls, besides turkeys, ducks, geese and pheasants
Leeds - market for general produce 1885Open air market, selling Date: 1885
Hop market in Borough 1729Hop market in Borough. Date: 1729
At the drapers shop 1887Two women choosing some material to be made into the latest fashionable dress. Date: 1887
INDIAN BAZaR 1930SIndian 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
DANISH BREADSELLERA man buying Smorrebrod, for breakfast, a famous bread often sold at sandwich bars in Denmark. Date: 1920s
Human hair market in Alsace 1871Human hair market in Alsace, France. Date: 1871
Dealer in bric-a-brac, Montmartre, Paris, FranceA dealer in junk and bric-a-brac (referred to as the Prime Minister of Death) in Montmartre, Paris. Date: 1905
SOCIAL / HORSE SALE C1790A horse sale at a country inn, The George, at Crawley in Sussex Date: circa 1790
WOMAN BUYS KNITTED TOPA shop assistant behind a counter gives a customer some advice about buying knitted tops. Date: early 1960s
TATTERSALLS / HORSE C1820Tattersalls, London: Tom taking Jerrys advice when buying a horse Date: circa 1820
Isabeys Exhibition Rooms 1820Fashionable ladies and gentlemen, and even a lucky little girl, mill around Monsieur Isabeys Exhibition Rooms at 61 Pall Mall, idly chatting & admiring the art. Date: 1820
CIGARETTE COUNTER / 1915An advertisement for De Reszke cigarettes: a gentleman has his cigarette lit for him at the tobacconists counter Date: 1915
COVENT GARDEN IN THE SPRING 1867Covent Garden in the Spring - Londoners flock to buy fresh flowers; a manservant in livery waits while his mistress makes her choice Date: 1867
Leadenhall Market at Christmas 1884Leadenhall Market at Christmas time, 1884. Date: 1884
VIEWING A HOUSE / SOLDA family of four view their new house which still has the Sold sign outside. Date: 1970s
TERRACED HOUSES FOR SALEAn impressive row of grand Georgian terraced houses and flats for sale during the 1980s housing boom. Date: 1980s
MARCHANDE DE MODESA marchande de Modes in 18th century Paris Date: circa 1760
XMAS SHOPPINGShe does the buying, he does the carrying... Date: 1899
Paris Quai - Buying PicturesAn elegant woman looks at loose prints on the Paris quais. Date: circa 1896
BOOKSHOP 1850Weve calld in, Mr Deen, to look out of your stock a pretty book... Date: circa 1850
PICTURE SALE / EXAMININGExamining a picture with a magnifying glass - the next pleasing picture was Solomons judgement, where a Centinel held a fine babe oer the pavement. Date: 1821
Saturday market - CruikshankSaturday marketing - buying meat and vegetables Date: circa 1849
Selling cats in China 1835Selling cats in China. Date: circa 1835
BUYING THE GOOSEA shrewd housewife feels whether the goose is plump enough for the family Christmas dinner Date: 1909
Metropolitan Cattle Market, Copenhagen Fields, London 1868Busy live cattle market in Copenhagen Fields. Date: 1868
KLONDIKE GOLD RUSHProspectors buying stores at Victoria, British Columbia, before setting out for the Klondike Date: 1898
Buying the RingYoung couple buy ring from attentive jeweler. Date: about 1840
Metropolitan poultry market 1884Saturday night in the Metropolitan poultry market. Date: 1884
Book sale at Sothebys auction house, LondonA book sale taking place at Sothebys auction house, London. Mr Bernard Quaritch (1819-1899), the German-born British bookseller and collector, is seated just in front of the auctioneers desk
A sale of art works at Christies, LondonA sale of art works at Christies in London. Date: 1888
Lenten season in Paris: The Fish-market 1875Lent has not yet prescribed effect upon the dietary arrangements of many families. This circumstance which of course tells rather against the butcher and in favour of the fishmonger. Date: 1875
Floating bread market, KashmirDawn light at the floating bread market on Lake Dal, near Srinagar, Kashmir Date: 1986
Kissy Street, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa. Date: circa 1912
Kermel Market in Dakar, SenegalTraders at Kermel Market in Dakar, the capital of Senegal (then French West Africa). Date: circa 1920
House clearance auction in a garden, with items on tables, an auctioneer with a baton and a porter in an apron. Date: circa 1908
Scene at Salisbury Railway StationScene on the platform at Salisbury Railway Station, with a steam train just about to depart. Date: September 1932
Tourist and textile salesman in EgyptA tourist in Egypt is shown some textile samples by an itinerant salesman. Date: early 20th century
Street market, Accra, Ghana, Gold Coast, West Africa. Date: circa 1910
Louis Wain Daddy Cat - shopping with Mummy Cat. circa 1910s
Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14 th century. Medieval handbook of healTacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Medieval handbook of health. Man offering turnips. Miniature. Fol. 51 r
Children buying ice cream on a Balham street, SW LondonChildren buying ice cream from an ice cream van on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1967