Trading Collection (page 5)

India Surat
Surat is the location of the first British trading station in India, founded circa 1608 : it can be seen as the first element in the British Empire. Date: circa 1770

Nicholas Leate
NICHOLAS LEATE London merchant trading in the Levant, holding gloves. Date: ? - 1631

Thomas Grosvenor, Milit
Field-marshal THOMAS GROSVENOR English military commander depicted at the entrance to Tattersalls horse-trading establishment. with his autograph Date: 1764 - 1851

Izmir, Turkey - A Camel Caravan takes a rest Date: circa 1910s

A Friday Fair / Market - Aleppo, Syria
A Friday Fair/Market - Aleppo, Syria Date: circa 1905

Essaouira (formerly Mogador) - Morocco
Essaouira (formerly Mogador) - tourist resort on the Western Moroccan region of Marrakesh on the Atlantic coast - occupied since prehistoric times

Cuba - Havana - Wharf Scene in the harbour - The Cuban Treasury is on the left and the Cabana Fortress is in the distance across the bay to the right. Date: circa 1909

South Korea - Chosen - Storage Jars awaiting export Date: circa 1920s

London Stock Exchange - View down to the Kaffir Market Date: early 1960s

Clifden, County Galway, Ireland - Market Square Date: circa 1903

Djibouti, East Africa - Sellers of Animal Hides
Djibouti, East Africa (then French Somaliland) - Sellers of Animal Hides. Date: circa 1910s

Corn Exchange, Mark Lane, London
Corn Exchange, 55 Mark Lane, London - South Side. The physical exchange of corn! Date: circa 1907

Lavish interior of an Arab Bazaar, Tunis, Tunisia Date: circa 1910s

Spakenburg, The Netherlands - Negotiations for a horse sale - rural community, one of the last where Dutch women wore traditional costume. Date: early 1930s

Large Open-air market - Ukraine
A large open-air market in the Ukraine. Date: circa 1902

Arab Market at Tunis, Tunisia Date: 1905

Street Sellers in Cairo, Egypt - The gentleman on the left appears to be a seller of some form of fancy artisan goods. Date: circa 1900s

Afghanistan - Bazaar at Chaman - Pathans selling grain
Afghanistan (at this stage) - Bazaar at Chaman - Pathans selling grain. Chaman is now the capital of Qilla Abdullah District, Balochistan, Pakistan. Date: circa 1910s

Morocco, North West Africa - Market, Sale Date: circa 1950s

Ver-o-peso market - Belem, Brazil
Ver-o-peso market - a market hall in Belem, Brazil located at Guajara Bay riverside. A Heavy load of goods on a large horse-drawn wagon. Date: 1930s

The Slave Market, St. Augustine, Florida, USA Date: 1902

Camel Caravan at the Caravaniserai Landikotal - NWFP
Camel Caravan at the Caravaniserai, Landikotal, NWFP en route from Afghanistan to Peshawar, Pakistan. Date: circa 1920s

Coment on Tariff Reform in regard to bread
The Tarriff Reform League (TRL) wanted to see the British Empire transformed into a single trading bloc, to compete with Germany and the United States

French Sheperdesses and their Sheep
A Market Vignette - French Sheperdesses and their Sheep Date: circa 1906

Russian Basket Seller playing a whistle (to attract the attention of would-be basket purchasers). Date: 1902

The Silk Road - Camel Train in Soviet Central Asia, crossing the desert. Date: 1933

Turkestan - Camel Trader passes below an archway
The Golden Road to Turkestan. Tourist Guide to Turkestan - (then in) Soviet Central Asia. Date: 1933

Lonja de Comercio ( Trading building ) and a
" Lonja de Comercio (" Trading building" ) and a partial view of Sevilles Cathedral. Engraving. SPAIN. Madrid. National Library."

Beatus of Girona. Sheet
Lonja de la Seda o Lonja de Mercaderes (Silk or Merchants Exchange) of Valencia. Contract or Trading Hall. SPAIN. Valencia

Tokyo Stock Exchange
The Stock Exchange, Tokyo, Japan

It might help some if Wall Street gave trading stamps. Illustration shows a throng of people on Wall Street rushing to purchase stocks from trading houses that offer various amounts of green or pink

Switzerland - Returning from Market
Switzerland - A group of Swiss locals returning home from a day at the Market at Lugano. Their boat crosses Lake Lugano filled with their (now empty) baskets. Date: 1904

Local Traders at Turkmenabat, Turkmenistan
Local Traders at Turkmenabat (Chardzhou, Carjew, Chardjui, Charjou, Chardzhev, Charjev, Charjew - Persian for " four canals/streams" ), ancient Amul - a town in Turkmenistan

Scene at Barnet Horse Fair, North London
Scene of horses for sale at the Barnet Annual Horse and Pleasure Fair, North London. The fair takes place over three days, operating under a Royal Charter issued by Barnet Council

Rope Sellers at the Sunday Fair, Huancayo, Peru Date: circa 1910s

Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Beurs van Berlage on the Damrak. Designed as a commodity exchange by architect Hendrik Petrus Berlage (constructed between 1896 and 1903)

Romanian Women - Sinaia. One appears to have purchased (or is about to sell) a fine angora rug or blanket. Date: circa 1900

Romanian food market
Scene in a Romanian food market. Date: circa 1910s

India / Paliacatta
The town of Paliacatta, also known as Gesdret, in southern India, where the Portuguese maintain a trading post or settlement. Date: 1671

India / Cranganor
The town and harbour of Cowlang in southern India, where the Portuguese maintain a trading post or settlement. Date: 1671

India / Cowlang
The town and harbour of Cowlang in southern India, where the Portuguese maintain a trading post or settlement. Date: 1671

Chicago in 1833
Eighty years ago the place where now stands a city of over 2, 000, 000 people was little more than a trading post... No other city has grown with such rapidity. Date: 1916

Dingle Harbour
View across the harbour at Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland. the chief town on the Dingle Peninsula; the chief port in the days of trading with Spain. Date: 1950s

Trading with Indians
Native American Indians trading goods on the platform of a train station for a bottle of liquor from a gentlman in a straw boater, U.S.A. Date: early 1930s

Wherries on the Yare
The sailing wherry Albion, on the River Yare, Norfolk, England, one of the last wherries used for trading on the Norfolk Broads. Date: 1960s

A Guajiro Market - Venezuela
A Wayuu (also Wayu, Wayuu, Guajiro, Wahiro) Market in Venzuela. The Guajiro are an Amerindian ethnic group of the La Guajira Peninsula in northern Colombia and northwest Venezuela. Date: circa 1930s

Sudan - Khartoum - The Grain Market Date: circa 1904

Moroccan Moorish Market (rather a folly/fraud of an image, as it depicts an Ottoman Fountain in Morocco, even though the Ottoman Empire never stretched as far as Morocco....!). Date: circa 1910s

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