Shopping Collection (page 18)

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

The Arcade, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
Scene inside The Arcade, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA, with shops and a glass roof. Date: 1916

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

Eve and her luxuries, WW1
Eve, the fictional gossip columnist of The Tatler magazine, pictured surrounded by some of her favourite luxury items - hats, dresses and lingerie

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

The Needless Question, predominance of khaki, WW1
The Customer: Will the colour run? The Assistant: Oh, no, Madam; its a khaki shade. A lovely reverse silhouette image from the First World War showing a woman at a drapery shop

Looking in a shop window during the sales, WW1
Each person has his or her own interpretation of the national call to thrift. This is the construction put upon it by the great drapery houses in the West End of London

Redfern advertisement, dressing well is patriotic, WW1
Advertisement for fashion house, Redfern advising ladies that, It is patriotic to treat our soldiers well, and to look your best when they are home on leave

Buying games for the Tatler scheme, WW1
Cartoon showing a lady leaving her car after spending a day buying various games to contriubte to the Tatler magazines Games Bureau

Christmas shopping
Mother & daughter return home in the snow laden with presents. Date: 1924

Porcelain shops, Kiyomizu, Kyoto, Japan
Porcelain shops at Kiyomizu, Kyoto, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Street scene, Tokyo, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Bairnsfather on leave by Marcel Poncin
The Face at the Window. A humorous, and entirely imaginative, drawing of Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, famous soldier cartoonist and creator of Fragments from France

Antiquary in silhouette
An antique shop owner, admiring a small vase, pictured in silhouette. Date: 1926

Rag Fair silhouette
Silhouette of a Rag Fair in London, showing a woman stall holder displaying her wares which range from old boots to fire bellows. Date: 1926

Safety First by Muriel Dawson. A toddler walks along a snowy street with Christmas presents. Date: 1926

Selfridges books advertisement by H. L. Oakley
Advertisement for London department store, Selfridges and its book department, featuring a silhouette of a tranquil, cosy scene showing a family seated by the fireside, all enjoying a good book

Street scene, Shanghai, China
Street scene in Shanghai, China. Date: circa 1890

Oxford Street, c. 1950
Oxford Street, Londons major shopping thoroughfare - an aerial view showing buses and shoppers thronging the pavement. The temple of commerce, Selfridge s, with flags flying

Crowds of Christmas shoppers, Oxford St, 1944
Dense crowds thronging Oxford Street looking for Christmas presents in December 1944. The entrance to Selfridges department store can be seen in the background. Date: 1944

Selfridges during Second World War
Selfridges department store on Oxford Street, London pictured during World War Two with the windows covered over as protection against air raids

Advertisement for the opening of Selfridges, 1909
Advertisement in The Illustrated London News inviting shoppers to visit the new temple of commerce on Oxford Street, London, Messrs Selfridge & Co from the week beginning 15 March 1909. Date: 1909

Pier Avenue, Ocean Park, California, USA, with shops and shoppers. Date: 20th century

Advert from the National Savings Committee 1946
Listen to your wiser self ! Shoppings done and you ve a few shillings to spare. Going to let them burn a hole in your purse

Horse and cart deliveries being made to shops in London

Crowds at a street market in London

View of Oxford Circus with a G. prop bus passing through. London. Date: C. 1910

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