Trades Collection (page 21)

London / Cries / Mat Man
The mat-man sells mats made from a strong fibre that adheres to the shell of the coconut and are very rare

London / Cries / Poultry Man
The poultry man sells live sucks and fowl to eat and to provide fresh eggs

London / Cries / Apple Boy
The apple boy sells apples from a basket

London / Cries / Fish Woman
The fish woman carries fresh fish on a basket on her head

London / Cries / Chairman
The chairman walks the street for the purpose of mending chairs

London / Cries / Matches
The match girl

Lavender Seller / St Cries
" Six bunches a penny, sweet bloomin lavender"

Pedlar Selling Cloth
A travelling salesmen shows a young woman a bolt of patterned cloth. He has a yard stick ready to measure her order. A women in the background embroiders

Marchand De Tisane
French vendor of tisane (herbal tea)

Vegetable Vendor
A street trader sells fish and vegetables from his horse in a Portuguese street market

Knife Grindr Portugal
His donkey waits patiently while a Portuguese knife- grinder exercises his trade

Ballad Singers
Ballad singers: the man plays the violin and hobbles on his false wooden leg, while the woman sings from the ballad sheets

C19 French Schoolbook
Two pages from a French schoolbook, with a scene from an ecole maternelle (= dame school) and images of trades

Shoeshiners / Fortune / 1935
Gentlemen having their shoes polished, some read the paper

Knife Grinder
Knife grinder

C17 Knife Grinder / 44
A grinder sharpens a knife on a grindstone

C17 Porter / Woodcut / 37
A porter staggers along a country road, bowed down beneath the weight of his bags

Cocoa Drink Seller
A French vendor of cocoa or hot chocolate

Trades Unions Demo
TRADES UNION REFORM demonstration, London : the crowd in Waterloo Place

TALLY MAN
A TALLY MAN in a cottage - a house-to-house trader who sold goods on instalment, keeping a tally of what his customers owed him - an early form of buying on credit

A Bird Seller C16
a seller of eggs and dairy produce

Poultry Seller
a poultry seller

Victorian Tinker / 1867
A Victorian tinker checking his handiwork

Street Trade / Bread
A London baker with a basket full of loaves

Selling Bread in Cuba
A panadero - a baker of Cuba

Trade / Street Trades / Food
A Journeyman Flesher sells whole sheep carcases in the streets of Edinburgh, with a barefoot fishwoman, a street porter and a carrier walking his horse (as law required)

Street Trades / Ballads
A ballad singer/seller of the London streets : Buy the fair Ballads I have in my pack !

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