Shopping Collection (page 17)

Rue de Barcelone, Bizerte (Bizerta), Tunisia, North Africa
Rue de Barcelone (Barcelona Street), Bizerte (Bizerta), Tunisia, North Africa. Date: circa 1920

This Way, Madam! by Sydney Blow and Douglas Hoare
Promotional postcard for This Way, Madam! By Sydney Blow and Douglas Hoare from the French Aime des Femmes by Maurice Hennequin and Albert Mitchell (Palais Royal, 2nd May 1911)

Tina Birch and Allan Sherman outside the Lady Jane boutique
Comedian Allan Sherman poses with Tina Birch (wearing a mini dress) outside the Lady Jane boutique in Carnaby Street, London in 1966

Carnaby street shoppers, 1966
A couple of typical young Carnaby Street shoppers in 1966, dressed fashionably to visit the myriad of cool and happening shops lining the street at the height of the swinging sixties in London

Coolsingel, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Coolsingel, the main shopping street in the centre of Rotterdam, Netherlands, with the City Hall and the Post Office. Date: circa 1920

Windmill with platform, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Windmill with platform, Oostplein (East Square), Rotterdam, Netherlands. Date: circa 1920

Haarlemmerstraat, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Haarlemmerstraat (Haarlem Street), Amsterdam, Netherlands, on a busy day. Date: circa 1920

Bay Street, Nassau, Bahamas, West Indies
Bay Street, the main shopping street in Nassau, Bahamas, West Indies. Date: circa 1940

Man with umbrella in the snow on a Christmas card
Man with a black umbrella blown the wrong way, in the snow on a Christmas card. He has dropped some of his shopping, and two children are laughing at him. Date: circa 1890s

Interior view of a department store, USSR
Interior view of a department store in the USSR -- probably GUM in Moscow, with its famous glass roof. Date: circa 1950s

Tatler cover - Paris translated, 1959
Front cover of The Tatler - an issue devoted to showing how the latest fashions from Paris and Rome can be translated into clothes you can buy in the shops now. Date: 1959

Boy and girl in a shop on a Christmas card -- the little girl is buying a packet of tea. Date: circa 1890s

Niagara Street, Buffalo, New York State, USA
Niagara Street (viewed from Main Street), Buffalo, New York State, USA, with the McKinley Monument in the distance. Date: circa 1904-1908

Cartoon, Two fashionable French women, WW1
Cartoon, 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

Illustration, Stories from Puppyland -- specimen illustration from another pocket book, Topsy in Toyland, showing a little girl in a toy shop with her mother, trying to decide what to buy. Date: 1904

The Snake Skin Shoes or the Temptation of Eve
The Snake-Skin Shoes, or, the Temptation of Eve by Pierrot. A young woman in a shoe shop is tempted by a pair of snake skin shoes presented by the somewhat saturnine looking sales assistant

A Good Position by Harold Earnshaw
A young woman stands outside by herself outside a shop window where, unbeknownst to her, a sign saying Boy Wanted, makes her look somewhat available! Date: 1928

Main Street, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA
Main Street looking north, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA. Date: circa 1908

Wartime Hunting - a day with the suburban hounds (rationing)
Humorous drawing by H. H. Harris commenting on rationing in Britain in 1918 using the metaphor of hunting. Lord Rhondda, who served as Food Controller, is Master of the Hounds

People shopping, Inner Mongolia, northern China
People shopping at a market stall in Inner Mongolia, northern China. Date: 1953

WW1 women volunteers distracted by sales, 1915
Trying experience of a contingent of the Womens Volunteer Defence Corps in the course of a route march. Date: 1915

Street market in a town square. Date: circa 1930s

Two women with dog and basket on a country lane
Two middle aged women with a dog and a basket on a country lane. Date: circa 1920s

Lexington Street, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Lexington Street (seen from Eutaw Street), Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Date: circa 1908

Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Baltimore Street looking east, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Date: circa 1908

Crowded Shopping street Bazaar in Cairo, Egypt Date: circa 1920s

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

Watsons Block, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
Watsons Block, East Main Street, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA. Date: 1916

9d special value shop price sign
A point of sale card indicating that an item is special value at 9 d. c.1920

Debenham & Freebody advert, Diana Mitford
Advertisement for smart celes sports jumpers from the department store Debenham and Freebody in Wigmore Street, London, featuring an illustration of a model who looks curiously like Diana Mitford in

Assyrian-Babylonian tablet with cuneiform characters. Purchasing contract. 2000 B.C. Babylonian art. Terra-cotta. ITALY. LOMBARDY. Como. Civic Museum

India - Street in Bazaar Delhi
A black and white lantern slide of a busy shopping area. Slide number 162 of Box 221 Boswell Collection Date: circa 1890s

Deep snowdrifts block lanes near Crediton, Devon
Deep snowdrifts block a country lane near Crediton, Devon, January 1963. A woman stands at a gate with her dog and shopping basket. Date: 1963

Adams House and Keiths Theatre, Boston, Mass, USA
Adams House (a hotel) and Keiths Theatre, Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Date: 1913

State Street, Schenectady, New York, USA
State Street, Schenectady, New York State, USA. Date: early 20th century

Woman in a large feather boa
Art Nouveau style depicting a woman walking along a shopping parade. Artist: Franz Laskoff Date: circa 1905

Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, with the Old South Church in the middle distance

Chapel and shops, Bogorodsk, Russia
Chapel of Alexander Nevsky and shopping arcade, Bogorodsk, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia

Paris, France - Marche Saint Germain. Date: 1855

Paris, France - Les Halles. Date: 18th century

Paris, France - Halles Centrales. Date: 1883

Kaufmanns Store, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Kaufmanns Big Store, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Date: circa 1905

Suffragette Christabel Pankhurst Shopping in Paris. Christabel Pankhurst, in exile in Paris, window shopping outside a jewellers

Suffragette All for the Cause Hammer. Militant suffragette with hammer concealed under coat seeks plate glass window to destroy. Caption reads, All for the cause Going Shopping

Sermons in Stones Militant Suffragette. A very masculine suffragette holds a bag of stones ready to aim at shop windows. Captioned

Silhouette artist about town - Burlington Arcade
The Burlington Arcade in Piccadilly depicted in silhouette with a number of dandyish young men, popularly known as knuts parading along or pausing to look in the arcades shop windows. Date: 1914

Blitz on London -- Oxford Street, WW2
Fire crews, using radial branches, extinguishing fires in Londons main shopping district of Oxford Street, W1, after high explosive and incendiary bombs caused widespread damage

Christmas shopping on the Western Front 1916
British soldiers buying geese in a French market. 1916

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