Trades Collection (page 17)

Ben Tillett / Vfair 1908
BENJAMIN TILLETT English Labour leader, trades unionist and MP, seen here with JOHN WARD

Working Mens Assoc
Certificate of membership of the International Working Mens Association signed by officers from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and Poland as well as the United States

Game-Seller
Dutch seller of game

Penny Toys / Thomas Crane
A man offers a selection of penny toys

Vegetable Seller, Japan
A Japanese street trader of vegetables carries the produce in baskets suspended from the ends of a long pole

Vegetable Seller, Paris
A working class woman in Paris, selling vegetables from a basket balanced on her head

Hag Flogs Spoons / 1773
A grotesque hag flogs wooden spoons in the street

Ballad Seller / C17
People gather round a popular ballad-seller

Apple Seller in Street
An old woman sells apples in the street from a green stall and tries to tempt a crocodile of school girls passing by into purchasing three apples for a penny

Racial / Martinique 1927
A smiling woman selling bananas in Martinique

Rabbit Skin Seller 1774
A Parisian seller of rabbit skins

Dieppe Fish Seller
A fish vendor of Dieppe, France

French Street Traders
A man pulls a water cart, a minstrel sings along to his hand-cranked music box and a lady sits mending socks, on a street with a dentist, upholsterer and oyster shop

Betel Nut Seller
A vendor of betel - the leaves of the plant are wrapped round parings of the areca nut and a little lime, which is then chewed and chewed and chewed

German Strawberries
A countrywoman from the Hamburg region dressed in her picturesque costume carries two heavy baskets of erdbeeren - strawberries - suspended from a yoke on her shoulders

Selling Gingerbread
Selling HOT SPICED GINGERBREAD outside the Pantheon in Oxford Street, London. This was a favourite fast food of the period

French Fish Seller / Paris
A fish seller chats to a customer wearing a wide-brimed hat and voluminous trousers on the banks of the Seine

Street Trade / Lettuce
A young man sells lettuce and other green salad ingredients on the street. He is using a distinctive large-framed backpack wicker basket

Autolycus (Winters Tale)
A pedlar carries his wares on a tray around his neck. He shows an interested group of girls what he has to offer. (Autolycus, in Shakespeares The Winters Tale )

Birds-Nests Seller
Street-seller of birds-nests

Selling Small Coals
Selling small coals from a barrow in a winter street

The Bakers Cart
The Bakers cart enters a village

Potato Trader
Selling New Potatoes from a barrow, house to house. Here she is outside the Middlesex Hospital

Chinese Dung Collectors
Young children scrape animal droppings off a paved walkway

Rag-And-Bone Man
A ragman picks up pages from stories and plays discarded on a French street and fills the basket on his back, seemingly content to ignore the wild dog snapping at his heels

Street Tea Sellers
GENUINE TEA COMPANY A satire on the passion for tea drinking and the pretensions of the lower orders to middle class gentility

Costermonger Joe -with a bunch of carrots under his arm, he trundles his donkey- cart through the streets and squares of London, selling door to door

Dresden Milkwoman
Dresdener Milchmadchen with a dog-drawn milk-cart

Selling Green Peas
The caption reads Green hasteds but this must be a variant of Green Hastings - the customary cry of street traders offering green peas

French Brush Seller
A French Brush seller with a wide variety of brushes for sale from small hand brushes to larger varieties for floors and chimneys

German Veggie Seller
A barefoot girl from Bardewick, near Hamburg, carries a heavy load of carrots and other vegetables

Charcoal Porters Fight
Two charcoal porters engaged in a brawl are kept apart by an oyster seller. Other porters, drinkers and a dog look on in alarm, humour and indifference

Flower Seller / Piccadilly
Nelly, the loneliest woman in London. Nelly was the only remaining flower seller in Piccadilly when this photo was taken, and even the statue of Eros had been temporily removed

May Day March - 1936
Workers organisations hold May Day celebrations in Hyde Park - London. This banner is for the Shoreditch Trades Council

Selling Frozen Fish
Selling frozen fish from a sledge in Russia

French Porter
French street porter with his barrow

French Milkwoman
A French milkwoman from Bagnolet, on the outskirts of Paris

Beadle and Trader
A Beadle dressed in his official uniform overturns the stall of a street seller, trading without a licence

Apple Seller & Customer
A street trader selling Coxes Pippins apples; she assures her lady customer they are choice fruit madam

Merry-Go-Round Man 1804
A seller of gingerbread nuts; a boy flies a kite in the backgound

Mobile Grinder 1970S
Henry Jones, mobile grinder with his grindstone on a trolley, Horley, Surrey, England

Eel Seller / Woodcut
A woman balances a basket on her head, full of large silver eels for sale

Hot Eel Soup for Sale
The vendor admits that though he has made his Hot Eel Soup for fifteen years, hes never tasted it himself

Cats Meat Man / T Crane
The cats meat man goes door to door

Kids Buying Crabs
Two little boys buying crabs from an old lady on a stall in Cullercoats, North Shields, north east coast of England

Victorian Knifegrinder
A Victorian knifegrinder at work

Tinker Returns Pot / 1867
A tinker returns a mended pot to a grateful maid

London Flower Sellers
London flower sellers with their wares

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