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London Trade Card - Masefields Paper Hanging and Papier Mache Manufactory in the Strand. 18th century
Letterhead design - Stephen Naylor, Tailor, WisbechLetterhead design - Stephen Naylor, Tailor, Clothier and Hatter, Church Gates, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. 19th century
Hotel Bill - Catering for All Types. circa late 18th century
Hotel Bill - Fresh Victuals. circa late 18th century
Hotel Bill - Convivial Cocktails. circa late 18th century
Cartoon, Dagurreotype photographer and client. mid-19th century
Scene in a saddlery workshop, with four workmen and a client. 19th century
Merchant selling melons and watermelons, GhardaiaCustomers look at the stall of a merchant selling melons and watermelons on a street in Ghardaia. Date: circa 1910s
Morocco, North Africa - Berber Water Seller - Water Seller and Customer. Part of Box 171 Boswell Collection - Morocco. Date: circa 1900
Mobile Chinese Street Barber at work. Date: circa 1910s
An itinerant food seller at the Shwedagon Pagoda, YangonAn itinerant street food seller serving up tasty snacks at the Shwedagon Pagoda, Yangon, Myanmar Date: circa 1920s
Louis Wain - Fresh Mice Creams. circa 1900s
The Shop of the Bookdealer Pieter Meijer Warnars on the VijgJohannes Jelgerhuis (1770-1836). Dutch painter. The Shop of the Bookdealer Pieter Meijer Warnars on the Vijgendam in Amsterdam, 1820. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland
Book of Trades, The Painter. 1841
Frog artist and patron on a greetings card. Date: circa 1890s
German Post OfficeA rather formidable looking well-to-do lady demands service at a German post office. The manager looks displeased and his assistant wisely keeps his head down. Date: circa 1900
Butchers Boy DeliveringA London butchers boy, delivering a leg of meat to a customer, is dressed in the traditional butchers blue smock with broad white cuffs & apron spattered with blood. Date: circa 1870
Bus ConductressA girl in a red polka dot dress happily flicks through a magazine on the back seat of the lower deck of a Routemaster bus, watched over by a happy bus conductress. Date: late 1950s
Customer Goes in SeineWhen a cab goes off the road beside the Seine, one of the passengers is precipitated into the river... Date: 1901
Selling a necklaceA jeweller shows a necklace to a potential lady customer 1933
Cartoon, Parisian woman out shopping, WW1Cartoon 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
A Dainty Purchase 1930Both customer and shop assistant seem delighted by this dainty purchase Date: 1930
Antiques Shop InteriorA lady customer sits admiring the antiques on sale in a smart shop watched by the owner Date: 1906
Dress Maker 1804A dress maker attends to her customer who is being fitted for a gown. Adjustments are made requiring a pair of scissors as the client admires the handiwork in the mirror. Date: 1804
TAILOR 1827A tailor cuts a piece of fabric with scissors while his two female employees take a customers measurements in the background. Date: 1827
C20 Working Class SceneAt almost every doorway the newsboy finds a customer. Date: 1904
Parisian Pays Meal BillA customer pays his bill in a Paris restaurant Date: 1833
Terrace Cafe Scene 1884Seated at a terrace in the boulevard Saint-Michel, Paris, a customer purchases a nosegay from a flower girl, while another vendor offers the Quartier Latin newspaper Date: 1884
Overheated Customer 1903Obsequious waiter and overheated customer Date: 1903
Afternoon tea is served at a tea shopAfternoon tea is served by a waiter to an elegant lady in a tea shop. Date: 1902
Poulterers shop, Holborn Hill 1845Displayed poultry hung outside in Holborn Hill for customers to buy for their Christmas dinner. Date: 1845
Stationery, Bunt & Sons, Penzance, CornwallStationery, Bunt & Sons, Alverton Street, Penzance, Cornwall, also St Mary s, Scilly Isles, with an advertisement for Miers Box Calf Finest Leather Boots. circa 1900
Two cats on a New Year card, customer and shoeshine boy. Date: circa 1890s
Interior of a pulque bar, Mexico City, MexicoInterior of a pulque bar or pulqueria, Mexico City, Mexico, with barman and customer. Pulque is an alcoholic drink made from the fermented sap of the maguey (agave) plant. Date: circa 1905
Interior of The Big Curio Store, Tijuana, Mexico. Date: 1928
Six people and a dog outside a cafe, FranceSix people and a dog outside the Cafe du Bel-Air, France. Date: circa 1910s
Cartoon, The Salesman, WW1Cartoon, 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
Carpet seller and customer outside the Hotel Grey D Albion, Cannes. The hotel is still there, the carpet seller probably not. Date: 1913
Serving warmed beer, Berlin, GermanyA bartender serving a customer with a warmed glass of beer, using a new electrical device, in Berlin, Germany. Date: circa 1930
Palma, Mallorca, Spain - Confectioner shopPalma, Mallorca, Spain. Entrance to the confectioners shop Forn Des Teatre, alongside customers. Date: 2013
Dignity & Impudence by H. M. BatemanAn arrogant looking taxi cab driver, enjoys a rest and a cigar, ignoring the signal of a potential customer across the street - a humorous comment on the attitude of London taxi drivers during
By George! by Nellie C. George, WW1 silhouette humourThe 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
Letter writer and client, Naples, Italy. The notice says that the man can also offer his services in French. Date: late 19th century
Street vendor and customer, JapanStreet vendor with a geisha customer, Japan. Date: circa 1890s
Street barber at work, India. Date: circa 1890s
Lemonade vendor and customer, Egypt. Date: circa 1870
Flower sellers outside St Pauls Cathedral, London. Date: 1936
With the high browse 1923A customer enters a disorganised bookshop to have a browse. Date: 1923