Customer Collection (page 5)

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

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, Germany
A 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 shop
Palma, Mallorca, Spain. Entrance to the confectioners shop Forn Des Teatre, alongside customers. Date: 2013

Dignity & Impudence by H. M. Bateman
An 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 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

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, Japan
Street 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 1923
A customer enters a disorganised bookshop to have a browse. Date: 1923

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

Plantol Soap
Humorous advertisement for Plantol Soap, manufactured by Lever Brothers Limited of Port Sunlight, England, showing a rather startled customer who has been over-zealously lathered with shaving soap by

Lyons Corner House
A Lyons Nippie waitress at a Lyons Corner House tries to take down an order from a young couple, who seem more interested in one another than ordering food or drinks! Date: early 1930s

Barman has a stern word with a disreputable customer who has been stealing pewter beer tankards, which he has been turning into coinage to bring back to spend at the same establishment

Palaeontology Response Card
The Palaeontology response card that was used in the Natural History Museum during the 1960s. Enquirers who had send in bones of sheep or horses thinking that they were fossils

Scene outside a souvenir shop, Yugoslavia
Scene outside a shop in a street in former Yugoslavia. The shopkeeper (on the left) has a discussion with a potential customer

Travelling Cloth Seller
A travelling cloth merchant in India offers his goods to a customer. Date: 19th century

A Slippery Customer by W. S. Hutton 1927
Young woman being very indecisive on what shoes to buy, while the shop assistant is on her hands and knees exhausted. Date: 1927

Customers from The Gin-Shop by Cruikshank
These are the Customers, youthful and old, That drink the strong drinks which are sold night and day At the bar of the Gin-shop, so glittering and gay. Illustration no

Fourpaws Cafe
A dog waiter serves a cup of tea to a female cat customer at the Fourpaws Cafe. Date: early 1930s

Iranian Fortune Teller
The old Iranian fortune teller looks up at her shy, smiling young customer : I see a rich and handsome young man from Tehran... Date: 1930s

Barmaid Grins & Bears It
An insincere barmaid laughs at a customers bad joke as she serves him a frothy tankard of ale! Date: 1967

Cat in Hat Shop
A doggy shop assistant helping a catty customer to select a new bonnet. Date: early 1930s

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

MODERN POST OFFICE
The ultra-modern post office at Eastbourne, Sussex, England, where a sign reads: To save you time, every counter clerk now deals with every kind of business. Date: 1960s

Shadow drawing. C. H. Bennett, A Ferocious Customer
A Ferocious Customer. (The Late Mr. Bruiser) Casting the shadow of a bulldog on the wall. Illustration from a series of shadow portraits of fictional characters by Charles H Bennett entitled Shadow

Metropolitan Police theatricals, showing five performers on a raised stage. There is a tea hut on the right, advertising tea, coffee and sandwiches, with a man serving an elderly customer

Tunisia - Wigmakers Boutique
A wigmakers Boutique with a customer being measured for his toupee

Pottery Merchants
A pottery merchant and customer stand between wares piled high in a large wicker backpack and engage in tense negotiation

In a French bar
A waiter waits patiently for a customer to find the money needed to pay for his glass of wine

Morocco - With the Butcher - Uncertainty
At the Butchers Stall at a Moroccan Market. The customer is unsure which of the finest choice cuts available to buy

Mesmerism by Keene
A rather plump and mature lady customer of a fashion house peers through her glasses at the latest 1920s dress modelled by a svelte young woman

Travel Agency
A young man in an American travel agency is advised by the girl behind the counter

Racial / Trinidad / Postman
A postman in the (then) British colony of Trinidad receives a pineapple from a grateful customer

I Want Armour s
Advertisement for Armours Beef Extract, the Best Extract of the Best Beef showing a lady customer pointing out an Armours advertising poster to her grocer

Egyptian Barber
An Egyptian barber shaves a customer

Special motor car for transporting live fish
An illustration of a special motor car designed with a tank and other appparatus (the function of which was to create river conditions)

Fitting a Ladys Boot
Charmant paysage ! (delightful landscape) A shoemaker enjoys the view as he fits a customer with a new pair of boots

French Fish Seller / Paris
A fish seller chats to a customer wearing a wide-brimed hat and voluminous trousers on the banks of the Seine

Street Water Seller
A street water seller and his customer exchange smiles

Bar Lady and Customer
A dapper fellow savours champagne and a cigar whilst in conversation with a comely bar lady, or barmaid

Stitching Fur Cloaks
Men at tables in a workshop surrounded by pelts stitch fur cloaks. A customer lays down his money & places his order. The fur could possibly be ermine

Butcher Serves Customer
A woman customer, holding a lorgnette up to her face, points to a plucked chicken that the butcher has picked up

Shop, Front & Back
BOUTIQUE ET ARRIERE-BOUTIQUE the customer sees the well- appointed front shop, little guessing at the misery at the back

Circulating Library
A customer is offered a book by the librarian

Apple Seller & Customer
A street trader selling Coxes Pippins apples; she assures her lady customer they are choice fruit madam

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