Buying Collection (page 6)

Boy and girl in a shop on a Christmas card -- the little girl is buying a packet of tea. Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, Two fashionable French women, WW1
Cartoon, two fashionable French women with their purchases, one of them reading a newspaper (Le Journal). One of them says that its easy to say Howitzers, Grenades, etc

Cartoon, Good sense, WW1
Cartoon, Good sense. An extravagant wife explains to her soldier husband why she had to buy such expensive clothes, and travel home by taxi. Date: 1916

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, buying a white French poodle
Illustration by Cecil Aldin -- the young Aldin in the rag and dog market at Bruges, Belgium, buying a large white French poodle. Date: 1927

Illustration, Tattersalls after the Derby Race
Illustration, Tattersall s, or, a Glance at the Settling Day after the Derby Race -- Felix Qui Nihil Debet (happy the man who owes nothing). An auction scene at the famous horse dealers. Date: 1832

WW1 - British Subaltern buys supplies
WW1 - The text accompanying the illustration translates to the British Subaltern asking the French shop keeper, " Could you please give me bread, butter and cheese for Mass

WW1 - buying horses for the Suffolk Territorial R. F. A
Soldiers from the Suffolk Territorial Royal Field Artillery buying horses for Army purposes at a Norfolk farm shortly after the outbreak of the First World War. Date: 1914

Cartoon, The Salesman, WW1
Cartoon, The Salesman, flirting with a customer as she tries on some gloves. Behind the salesman is a shadow of German soldiers with severed hands skewered on a sword. Date: 1915

Assyrian-Babylonian tablet with cuneiform characters. Purchasing contract. 2000 B.C. Babylonian art. Terra-cotta. ITALY. LOMBARDY. Como. Civic Museum

Notice published by London Licensed Victuallers, WW1
Prohibition of Treating (ie buying a drink for another person). Notice published by London Licensed Victuallers, 11 October 1915

British troops arrive from the trenches at Waterloo Station
Troops just arrived at Waterloo Station from the trenches buying tickets at the booking office for travel to their suburban homes. A typical scene at London train stations during the First World War

Christmas shopping on the Western Front 1916
British soldiers buying geese in a French market. 1916

Help to Win the War by Buying Aeroplanes at 2, 500 each
Business Mens Boom Week (March 4th - 9th 1918) - A Message from the Sky to the People of Bridgwater and District. Help to Win the War by Buying Aeroplanes at 2, 500 each

By George! by Nellie C. George, WW1 silhouette humour
The Customer: Have you got anything topical in the way of curtains? The Shop Assistant: Certainly Madam, Here is one of our new Kaiser curtains; all ready to hang

The Needless Question, predominance of khaki, WW1
The Customer: Will the colour run? The Assistant: Oh, no, Madam; its a khaki shade. A lovely reverse silhouette image from the First World War showing a woman at a drapery shop

Looking in a shop window during the sales, WW1
Each person has his or her own interpretation of the national call to thrift. This is the construction put upon it by the great drapery houses in the West End of London

Flag Day, WW1, little boy in miniature uniform
A small boy dressed up in a miniature British officers uniform sells a flag to an obliging police officer with the help of a lady, presumably his mother

Buying games for the Tatler scheme, WW1
Cartoon showing a lady leaving her car after spending a day buying various games to contriubte to the Tatler magazines Games Bureau

Street vendor and customer, Japan
Street vendor with a geisha customer, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Flower sellers outside St Pauls Cathedral, London. Date: 1936

Rag Fair silhouette
Silhouette of a Rag Fair in London, showing a woman stall holder displaying her wares which range from old boots to fire bellows. Date: 1926

Humpty and Dumpty the rabbits are sold
Sold Again! -- Humpty and Dumpty the twin rabbits are sold for a penny each, although their mother had told them that they were worth their weight in gold. Date: 1912

A Sale at Christies in the 1850s by Charles Robinson
Bidders at a fine art auction at Christies auctioneers in the mid-Victorian era. Date: 1938

Action for Libel, Lyons v Lipton, WW1
Notice of an Action for Libel in the High Court of Justice, J Lyons & Co Limited being the plaintiffs, and Lipton Limited as defendants, during the early stages of the First World War

Advert from the National Savings Committee 1946
Listen to your wiser self ! Shoppings done and you ve a few shillings to spare. Going to let them burn a hole in your purse

Fishmongers at an indoor market in London

A woman buying bird feed from a street selling in London

A female ticket collector at platform five in a London train station

Smelling fragrance
An elegant lady brings her nostrils close to a scent bottle proffered no doubt by a persuasive sales assistant at a beauty counter. Date: 1955

Auction of famous greyhounds
The famous string of racing greyhounds from the Melksham Kennel of Mr H Sawtell, sold at auction at Aldridges Repository in August 1932, and realising a sum of nearly 1400

Advert for the National Savings Committee 1942
The gift that grows. National Savings gift tokens. Heres the simple answer to all your gift problems this christmas - gift tokens

A Kievsky Station Food Stall, Moscow
Cheap dinners on sail at a food stall outside Kievsky Station in Moscow. Date: 1919

A woman buying food from a street vender

customers buying fruit and veg at market
Man and woman buying fruit and veg at market stall Date: 1930s

Advert for the National Savings Committee 1947
Keep a firm hold of your shopping drill. Desire! " My dear - the very thing" ! Debate! " But is it worth all that"

Scene in a car showroom, with a new Vauxhall 10 on display, stripped down to its engine. Prices start at 168

Boy buying food from a travelling shop parked alongside a public convenience. Date: 1920s

Female Tourist in Egypt
A lady tourist in Egypt is accosted by a man selling local curios. Date: early 1930s

WW2 - Cost of a Selfridges 3-piece suit in rationing coupons
WW2 - Cost of a Selfridges 3-piece suit - Cost 8 guineas and 26 Clothing rationing coupons - 17th June, 1941. In 1942, each person had 60 coupons p.a. which reduced down to 24 coupons by 1945

Old Leadenhall Market - Gentleman purchasing a dog
Old Leadenhall Market - A smart Gentleman can be seen purchasing a dog. Date: circa 1906

WW2 - Home front - British housewives queue to buy eggs
October, 1940 - British housewives queue to buy eggs, both domestically sourced and supplied from the Dominions - in this case, Canada. Date: 1940

Japan - Woman buying food from a street vendor, possibly rather grateful to be able to rest his heavily-laden yolk of wares. Date: circa 1906

Buy War Bonds and Stamps - USA - WW2
Patriotic Postcard from Alantic Cuty ( proud to become a part of the US Army Air Force ) encouraging the American populace to purchase War bonds

18, 000 farthings for London Slum Childrens Breakfasts
18, 000 farthings collected in 1907 by R Arnold of 15 Mount Pleasant, Tunbridge Wells, Kent for the charitable purchase of London Slum Childrens Breakfasts. Date: 1907

Young boy tucking in at the Ice Cream stall " Don t e make a gawd of is stummick? Why, thats the second a porth I ve seed I m ave this mornin !" Date: 1902

Man who has bought a fine wooden chest at Auction
In Possession. A man who has bought a fine wooden chest at an Auction awaiting transportation to remove it. Date: 1894

Cockney Comment on the purchase of a parrot
Two Pals outside a pub looking at a third bargaining for a parrot with a sailor outside a pub. " Why, es Missus jaws enough. Wot ds e want with a bloomin parrot." !! Date: 1895

Mother and daughter in a shop
A mother and her daughter study the food shelves in a shop, deciding what to buy. c. 1910

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