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The Chestnut Sellers. Italian anonymous. Costumbrism. Watercolour
Shwedagon Pagoda food sellers - Rangoon - Shwedagon Pagoda food sellers Date: 1952
Petticoat Lane Market, London, 1903Illustration showing a large crowd of shoppers and sellers at the Petticoat Lane Market on a Sunday in 1903. This market, actually in Middlesex Street
Turkish Cake StallTurkish cake and fruit sellers. Date: early 1930s
Cigarette showcard, a woman selling packets of straight cut cigarettes and Dubec Turkish cigarettes Date: 19th century
A newspaper seller in Trafalgar Square, London
A Glasgow newspaper seller
Book sellers on the Quai St-Michel in Paris. Notre Dame Cathedral can be seen in the background
Seller of plaster figurinesA street seller of plaster figurines and busts. He balances a board on his head with various figures for sale, and carries two larger busts in his arms. A small boy seems interested in his wares
Ornithological Humour at the CinemaTwo Usherettes discuss the finer merits of English Garden Birdwatching: " My Husbands a Bird Watcher - Guess what he was getting excited about last night - Blue Tits!" Date: circa 1950s
A street, Venice, Italy. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900
Couscous sellers and an Arab cafe, Tunis, Tunisia. Date ca. 1899
Local Traders at Turkmenabat, TurkmenistanLocal Traders at Turkmenabat (Chardzhou, Carjew, Chardjui, Charjou, Chardzhev, Charjev, Charjew - Persian for " four canals/streams" ), ancient Amul - a town in Turkmenistan
Water carriers, JerusalemWater carriers in Jerusalem. Date: early 20th century
Roadside Butter Market in Ireland Date: 1905
Rope Sellers at the Sunday Fair, Huancayo, Peru Date: circa 1910s
Water carriers with water from the Nile, EgyptEgyptian water carriers with water from the River Nile, ready to sell to anyone who needs it. Date: early 20th century
Lido Peaches by W. S. HuttonIllustration showing a peach seller offering samples of his wares to two glamorous ladies on a beach in the 1920s. Date: 1927
Cairo - Sellers of BouzaItinerant sellers of Bouza, a fermented alcoholic beverage produced from wheat in Egypt. Is this the origin of the English term booze??? Date: circa 1910s
Lahore, Pakistan - The Gate Bazaar Date: circa 1910s
The Trans-Siberian Railway - a network of railways connecting Moscow with the Russian Far East and the Sea of Japan. It is the longest railway in the world
China - Qingdao - TradesmenChina - Qingdao (Tsingtao) - Tradesmen, selling a variety of foodstuffs, ceremic pots, plates and bowls, reed bags, grills and dried rushes. Date: circa 1910s
Vietnam - Can Tho Province - Traon - Fruit Market Date: circa 1900s
Ethiopia, Africa - Cotton Market Date: 1911
Sellers Kitchen Cabinets Date: 1923
Israel - Peasants laden with cauliflowersPeasants laden with cauliflowers in Jerusalem - at this stage under Ottoman control. Date: 1905
Fruit Sellers - Casablanca, MoroccoMoroccan Fruit sellers, Casablanca - selling mostly grapes by the look of things. Date: circa 1910s
Sherwood Street, London - Newspaper boysSherwood Street, London - Some extremely jovial newspaper boys Date: 1901
Morocco - Tetuan - Street Traders - Berber women from the Moroccan Riff Mountains, who do not permit their faces to be seen. Date: circa 1910s
Samarkand - Uzbekistan - Melon SellersSamarkand - Uzbekistan - Watermelon Sellers before the Mosque. The building back left is one of the three madrasahs of the Registan, the heart of the ancient city. Date: circa 1910s
Sword Sellers - Hyderabad, India Date: 1904
Flower Market at Dieppe, FranceFlower Market at Dieppe, Normandy, France Date: circa 1907
Shepheards Hotel, Cairo, Egypt Date: 1906
Foyles book shop, Charing Cross RoadThe famous Foyles book shop on Charing Cross Road in London, established in 1903. c.1948
Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur - Poultry or game vendors Date: circa 1910s
Bergen Fish MarketMen selling fresh fish in wooden crates at Bergen fish market, Norway. Date: 1930s
Si-Che, Perfume DivinitySI-CHE patron divinity of the sellers of perfumes and cosmetics Date: 1918
Shoe shop, New YorkBates & Co. 176 Duane St. Interior of the empty A.J. Bates & Co.s 176 Duane Street shoe store; shoes and plants visible
The Result of Purchasing a Blind Horse : Dr Syntax causes chaos riding a blind horse in the street, knocking over a woman whose donkey bucks and kicks
Indian Fruit Sellers - possibly selling apples or pomegranates?
Pan and Beedi SellersPan Seller (left) and Beedi (thin cigarettes) Seller - India. Beedi-rolling is a cottage industry in India and is typically done by women in their homes, as depicted beautifully in this postcard!
Georgia - Fur hat shopA shop selling fur hats in Georgia
The Rag and Old Iron SellersThe Rag Sellers. " Rags, old iron for sale!". A scruffy street urchin wheels a pram jam-packed with rags and old iron - her baby sibling atop the pile - through the streets of Paris
Estonia - Tallinn (Reval)Estonia - the capital Tallinn (Reval) - The New Market
Rijeka (Fiume) - Scene just after WWIAn interesting postcard with silhouettes and line drawings, showing Rijeka (Fiume) just after WWI (1918-19) with street sellers, soldiers and some young lads
Dubrovnik (Ragusa) - Croatia - Piazza GundulicMarket stalls on the Piazza Gundulic - Dubrovnik (Ragusa), Croatia - on the left is a monument to Ivan Gundulic (1589 - 1638) - the most celebrated Croatian Baroque poet from the Republic of Ragusa
Street Newsboys in LondonAll the Winners - newspaper seller providing all the racing results to confident punters
Hyderabad, India - arms sellers