Selling Collection (page 10)

Tradesman sharpening scissors on a Christmas card
Travelling tradesman sharpening scissors and other items on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

c. 1880s Italy - Italy, probably Sicily street vendors, boys
c.1880s Italy - southern Italy, probably Sicily street vendor with his wares - boy selling vegetables

Dog costermonger selling in the street on a Christmas card
Dog costermonger selling juicy bones in the street on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Man selling toys in the street on a Christmas card -- Like the cuckoo with but one song. Date: circa 1890s

Girl selling holly on a Christmas and New Year card
Girl in a snowy street selling holly on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Tourist and textile salesman in Egypt
A tourist in Egypt is shown some textile samples by an itinerant salesman. Date: early 20th century

Women selling lace, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Africa. Date: circa 1920s

Copenhagen, Denmark - Gammel Strand - The Fish Market. Date: circa 1930s

Street market, Accra, Ghana, Gold Coast, West Africa. Date: circa 1910

Native bazaar in Djibouti, north-eastern Africa. Date: circa 1920

Card game, The Streets of London - Baked Potato Seller. circa 1880

Stavanger Market Square (Torget) - Norway
Stavanger Market Square (Torget), Norway. A market scene at the port square in Stavanger, with fruit and vegetables trading from carts and trucks. Date: circa 1930s

Chad - Milk Sellers at N Djamena (Fort-Lamy). Date: circa 1930s

Samarkand, Uzbekistan - Melon Seller. Date: circa 1905

Tashkent, Uzbekistan - The Grain Courtyard. Date: 1915

Uzbekistan - Margilan, Fergana region - Skull cap sellers - note the women are completely covered. Date: circa 1910

Maple & Co, London
Maple & Co, Tottenham Court Road, London -- handwritten invoice for furniture. 1906

Tallow-Chandler 1827
" The business of a tallow- chandler consists in making candles of suet or fat and in selling them after they are made". Date: 1827

Robert Scott Ltd. selling Aertex garments, 8 Poultry, London
Robert Scott Ltd. selling Aertex garments, Revenue House, 8 Poultry, Cheapside, London Date: 1910

Cartoon, Women also profiteer, WW1
Cartoon, Women also profiteer. Showing how women are also profiting from the war, either by socialising with servicemen or selling them expensive flowers, food and drink. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Replacing those who are at the Front, WW1
Cartoon, Replacing those who are at the Front, showing French women taking on mens jobs during the First World War: shaving a man in a barbers shop, punching a travel ticket, selling newspapers

The crumpet man, c. 1900
A man sells piles of crumpets from a cart in London. A potential customer in a heavy overcoat admires the display. Date: c. 1900

The muffin man, 1841
The muffin man, with a basket of muffins on one arm, rings his handbell and calls out to attract the attention of passers-by. Date: 1841

Street scene with fruit seller, Naples, Italy. Date: late 19th century

Street Scene, Cairo, Egypt. Date: circa 1870

Bonzo sells a pup by George Studdy
Bonzo sells a pup -- Bonzo and five Bonzolines sit in a basket, while one pup sits separately with a sold notice round his neck, ready to travel on the GWR to The Kennels, Lone Bridge, Dartmoor

Sale at Selfridges in aid of Belgian refugees
Famous actors and actresses selling chocolate in Selfridges department store on Oxford Street, London, to raise funds for King Alberts Belgium Relief Fund during World War One

Brick Lane Market, London, 1902
Illustration showing the Sunday morning market in Brick Lane, Spitalfields, London, in 1902. This market, selling a wide variety of goods including clothing and livestock

Stamp market on the Champs Elysees, Paris, France
Stamp market and stamp collectors on the Champs Elysees, Paris, France. Date: circa 1910s

Street Vendor selling Nuts to Gentleman with a Simian Visage
Street Vendor cheekily offering the sale of some nuts to a diminutive Gentleman with a distinctive Simian visage!! Date: 1899

Venezuela - Broom, brush and mop salesman
Venezuela - Mobile Broom, brush and mop salesman, his wares stacked neatly in panniers carried on the flanks of his noble mule steed. Date: circa 1950s

Smithfield Market, London - at the time, Londons principal meat market. Situated close to St. Bartholomews Church and Hospital

Market women and their Bananas - Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Date: 1909

Elderly lady fruit seller - Nassau, Bahamas Caption: " Anything Today Missus?" Date: 1945

Victorian costermonger and his cart
A Victorian costermonger and his cart, stacked up with baskets full of produce, photographed on a street of terraced Georgian houses. Date: 4 February 1893

The Mint, Santiago, Chile, South America
The Mint of Santiago -- street scene in Chile, South America. 1824

Pride comes before a fall
An illustration to the saying, Pride comes before a fall. Showing a rich man (possibly royal) in an encounter with a boy selling food from a basket in the street

Llangwm cockle woman, Haverfordwest, South Wales
An elderly cockle woman from the coastal village of Llangwm rests outside St Marys Church in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales. She is on her way to the Portfield area of the town

Readers Digest vending machine, Exeter station
A vending machine dispensing copies of the Readers Digest at Exeter St Davids station in Devon. At this date, before decimalisation of the currency

Lord Mayor of London opening Whiteleys store
The Lord Mayor of London, Sir Thomas Boor Crosby (1830-1916), opening Whiteleys new premises in Bayswater, West London. At the time this was the biggest shop in the world

Walls Ice Cream cart
A classic Stop Me And Buy One hand-pushed cart selling Walls Ice Cream. The vendor serves a little girl who stands on a tree stump to look into the cart and choose her favourite flavour

Flower Girl at St. Martin s-In-The-Fields, London, 1894
Engraving, after the painting by William Logsdail, showing a London flower-selling girl outside the church of St. Martin s-in-the-Fields, 19th century

Coffee Seller 1930S
An enterprising young woman coffee seller stands still to let an old customer pour himself a hearty mug of coffee in front of a confectury shop selling Cadburys chocolates

The first Illustrated London News
Front cover of the very first copy of the Illustrated London News, published May 14th, 1842. Founded by Herbert Ingram, who anticipated demand for a newspaper containing illustrations

Old King Cole was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul was he... Old King Cole and a lady selling tickets to hoards of excited children to enter the world of nursery rhymes

Busy French bakery
A busy French bakery, with food on display, dough being kneaded on the left, and new loaves being baked on the right

Street market in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia
Street market with adults and children in Surabaya (Soerabaja, Soerabaia), East Java, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). Date: circa 1920s

Traditional Flower Seller - Nice, Cote d Azur, France
Traditional Flower Seller - Flower Market - Nice, Cote d Azur, France Date: 1910s

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