Buying Collection (page 4)

Tourist and textile salesman in Egypt
A 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 heal
Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Medieval handbook of health. Man offering turnips. Miniature. Fol. 51 r

Children buying ice cream on a Balham street, SW London
Children buying ice cream from an ice cream van on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1967

Advert from the National Savings Committee 1945
Rhyme and reason. Sing a song of spare cash, a song to make you sigh; Four and twenty shillings spent on a buy. When the buy was open the bug began to sing Wasn t that a lot to pay for such a foolish

Advert from the National Savings Committee 1943
Go on, buy it! Its not worth quarter the price. When he whispers in your ear, Go on, buy it ! be firm. Say No, I m going to have a little nest-egg for the time when money will buy something worth

Readers Digest vending machine, Exeter station
A vending machine dispensing copies of the Readers Digest at Exeter St Davids station in Devon. At this date, before decimalisation of the currency

Lord Mayor of London opening Whiteleys store
The Lord Mayor of London, Sir Thomas Boor Crosby (1830-1916), opening Whiteleys new premises in Bayswater, West London. At the time this was the biggest shop in the world

Emigration. Irish Emigrants Leaving Queenstown Harbour
Detailed harbour scene with hundreds of emigrants waiting for the boat for New York, steam ships in the background. In the foreground barefoot young lads are expectantly waiting

Busy French bakery
A busy French bakery, with food on display, dough being kneaded on the left, and new loaves being baked on the right

French & Beligian Goods
Germans warned off buying French and Belgian goods during the occupation

Cartoon, After the Masquerade. circa 1840s

French Railway Alphabet - B for Billets (tickets). 19th century

Market Hall, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa
Busy scene outside the Market Hall, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa. Date: circa 1910

People at a fish market in Stavanger, Norway -- a woman buys live fish from a fisherman. Date: circa 1910s

People at a market in Stavanger, Norway, buying fruit and vegetables. Date: circa 1910s

Rabbit and Egg (!) Market at Couhe, France
A Rabbit and Egg (!) Market at Couhe - a commune in the Vienne department in the Poitou-Charentes region in western France

Christmas trees in Covent Garden Market, London
Christmas trees on sale in Covent Garden Market, London. 1854

Votes for Women Fountain Pen
Will you help the Cause by buying a wonderful fountain pen? Date: June 5th 1914

London Trade Card - James Rodwell, Upholsterer and Sworn Appraiser, at the Royal Bed and Star, 2nd door from the corner of New Broad Street, facing Bedlam Walk in Moorfields. 18th century

Costume plate, women buying railway tickets
Costume plate, two women with a little girl buying railway tickets, June 1866. 1866

Fashionable lady buying bed socks in a Chic Boutique
Fashionable lady buying bed socks, egg-cosies and other trifling items in a Chic Fashion Boutique. Date: 1923

The whole world isordering Dutch Cheese! Advertising card
The whole world (including John Bull, Uncle Sam, Marianne and representatives from China, Japan, Africa and Arabia) is making orders for Dutch Cheese! Advertising card for J. H

WW2 - We win because we are the strongest - Buy War Bonds
WW2 - " We win because we are the strongest" - Buy French War Bonds. Map showing the comparative strength of the Allies. The Axis powers at this point did not include Italy and Japan

Buying A House by H M Bateman is an illustration on the dangers of buying a house. The couple dance in the big rooms and run up and down the stairs and buy impulsively

Issoudun, France - The Vegetable Market. In the Centre-Val de Loire Region within the Indre Department. Date: circa 1906

Mexican Woven Basket Seller - Mexico City Date: circa 1910s

Pet Shop - Hilarious Postcard - Purchasing a Puppy. Lady (after purchasing dog): " And what do you call the little fellow

Meat market, Ghardaia
Customers and merchants exchange money and goods at the meat market in Ghardaia. Animal carcasses line the walls and a young merchant boy looks straight into the lens of the camera. Date: circa 1910s

Marseilles, France - an angry fishwife hits out at a man who dares to suggests that her produce is not fresh. Date: circa 1910s

Market Square, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa
Corner of the Market Square, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. Date: circa 1905

Shopping on board a cruise liner
" Bond Street" aboard a liner: Shopping on the high seas. Womans chief diversion still available at sea: Customers at an R.M.S.P

Fruit market, Caracas, Venezuela, Central America
Fruit market on a busy day, Caracas, Venezuela, Central America. Date: circa 1910

Market day, Chichicastenango, Guatemala, Central America
Market day in Chichicastenango, Guatemala, Central America, with the church of Santo Tomas in the background. The town is well known for its market days on Thursdays and Sundays. Date: circa 1920

Street market, Thailand
Street market in Thailand on a busy day, with food on display. Date: circa 1970s

Hillman Wizard car illustration
A well-dressed couple stand and admire their new Hillman Wizard car. Date: 1931

Choosing fancy dress costumes for Carnival on the Riviera
Illustration by Steven Spurrier showing women selecting fancy dress costumes to wear on the Riviera at Gala events during the Carnival season

British Railways memorabilia
A wagon-load of old timetables are pored over by railway enthusiasts, including a lady in a tam-o-shanter and wellington boots. circa 1974

Spain. 19th century. Pawnshop and Savings Bank. Sales room
Spain. 19th century. Pawnshop and Savings Bank, an institution created with a social and religious assistance to the most needy. Sales room. Madrid

Japanese history. Fruit seller. Colored engraving from 1882

France. Paris. Market. Colored engraving, 1869

Scene in a grocers shop -- No Trust. 19th century

George Ernest Studdy, Bonzo buys a balloon, which lifts him up into the air, until he lands on a policemans head. Originally published in The Bonzo Book (Partridge, London). Date: 1925

Leipzig Tree Market
A Christmas tree market in the Augustus Platz, Leipzig: people buying trees in the evening winter darkness by the light of lanterns and lamps Date: circa 1870

Social / Cosne Market 1913
People buying and selling at a picturesque street market at Cosne Date: 1913

Cartoon, Parisian woman out shopping, WW1
Cartoon showing an elegant Parisian woman in a very tall hat, out shopping for fabrics. She asks for a large amount of material for a new hat, in spite of wartime austerity. Date: 1917

London Street Dog Seller
London street trader selling dogs Buy a dog, Ma am ? Date: 1860

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