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WOMAN USES CASH REGISTERA woman uses a cash register when her customer purchases a tin of food for 5 shillings and eightpence. They smile as they complete the transaction. Date: early 1960s
Errand BoyLondon characters: when you go shopping, you dont have to carry your purchases home, the ERRAND BOY does that, like this butchers boy carrying your uncovered Sunday joint. Date: circa 1870
Bridal Wreath, GermanyA country girl purchases a bridal wreath. Date: early 19th century
Social / Market Return 18CCountry maids returning from market with their purchases Date: circa 1790
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
The Heart of a Shopgirl by H Schrier and L PercyPromotional postcard for The Heart of a Shop-girl by Henrietta Schrier and Lodge Percy. First produced at the Kings Theatre, Longsight, 11th September and Stratford East, 30th October 1916
Cartoon, Two fashionable French women, WW1Cartoon, 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
Old Leadenhall Market - Gentleman purchasing a dogOld Leadenhall Market - A smart Gentleman can be seen purchasing a dog. Date: circa 1906
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
Duty-free Cigarettes and Alcohol - NorwayTwo women and a man pose on the deck of a Norwegian ferry boat wit their duty free spirits and cigarettes. Following WW2 there was still considerable rationing of food and drink in the UK
Edward VIII in JapanEDWARD VIII On a tour of Japan, when Prince of Wales, he purchases a walking stick at Lake Chuzenji, near Nikko. Date: 1894 - 1972
Shopping in Regent Street, London, 1849Engraving showing a lady (centre) returning to her carriage, after completing her purchases in Regent Street, during the London Season of 1849
A Trip on a Tricycle Chair, 1890Illustration showing a Trip on a Tricycle Chair that leads to disastrous consequences for the chairs driver. At top right, the young man in the bowler hat purchases the machine
French Maid / Clothes 1909Ladies in fashionable hobble skirts, one wears a coatee or spencer with Directoire collar & lapels & a blouse with a ruff. She also wears a large hat not unlike a Lunardi
AT THE GROCERs 1880A woman purchases half-a-pound of soap at the grocer s
Maid Carries ClothesA ladys maid carries in her mistresss latest purchases (the maid on her own)
Capitalist & SweepersAt Christmas-time the workers clear the streets so that the capitalist can carry home his purchases in comfort
Social / Japan / Widow 18CA widow and her daughters walk on the banks of the Sumida, on their way back from market, with a boy hired to carry their purchases
Social / Delivering 1902Paris midinettes (shop girls) delivering purchases in the rain
London / Cries / UmbrellasThe umbrella man who purchases, repairs and sells umbrellas
Peter Minuit TradingPeter Minuit, of the Dutch West India Company and first Dutch governor of New Amsterdam, purchases Manhattan for trinkets, estimated value $24