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The Andrinople Gate - Constantinople, Turkey
Feather Seller - TurkeyA door-to-door itinerant feather seller in Constantinople, Turkey. He also carries a bunch of grapes on his head!
Pottery MerchantsA pottery merchant and customer stand between wares piled high in a large wicker backpack and engage in tense negotiation
Elderly Water VendorElderly itinerant water vendor from Constantinople, Turkey
Cooking Utensil SalesmanItinerant cooking utensil salesman, with a wicker backpack and hand basket, containing brushes and wooden platters
Offal seller - ConstantinopleIn Turkey, unwanted offal is used to feed cats. Here an offal vendor cuts off some dinner for a womans pet cat. Possibly a liver seller
Shanghai - porters resting by the roadsidePorters with large wooden barrels and baskets attached to their yolks, rest at the side of the road, some taking refreshment. Further down the street is a vendor of cakes or biscuits
Selling fowl on the streetYoung Turkish girl selling small fowl with her brother, whom she is instructing in the finer points of street-based avian commerce
Street vendor - Adana, TurkeyA vendor of Sherbet - Adana, Turkey
Hot chestnut sellerA jolly Hot Chestnut seller keeping warm by the fire, with a cat sheltering beneath him. He has a wicker basket full of uncooked chestnuts on his arm
A Night to Remember, book and film itemsThe book by Walter Lord, with an information folder and film poster advertising the 1958 film, A Night to Remember, starring Kenneth More, based on the Titanic disaster of 1912
Turkish Orange VendorA Turkish Orange vendor
Turkish newspaper boyA newspaper seller, Cakal Suleyman, vendor of the Aksam Newspaper at Bandirma (Panderma), Turkey
Itinerant Coffee Vendor - Istanbul, TurkeyItinerant Coffee Vendor carrying a yoke, with two buckets containing the tools of his trade hanging from either end. Possibly standing/crouching in the grounds of a marble factory
Travelers RefreshedTwo Russian travelers are refreshed when they encounter an itinerant vendor of liquid refreshment (presumably water or a cold drink of some kind)
Vegetable Seller, JapanA Japanese street trader of vegetables carries the produce in baskets suspended from the ends of a long pole
French CabrioletA French Cabiolet carriage containing some well-to-do folk pauses beneath a suspended street lantern to take a drink from a roadside salesman with a one-man bar
Dieppe Fish SellerA fish vendor of Dieppe, France
Betel Nut SellerA 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
Hot Eel Soup for SaleThe vendor admits that though he has made his Hot Eel Soup for fifteen years, hes never tasted it himself
The Holly CartThe Holly cart - a street vendor sells holly from door to door
Peas / Cries of LondonA woman fills her apron with green and young hastings (peas) bought from a street vendor
Coffee Vendor 1850A French coffee vendor pours out a cup
Mat & Broom Seller 1804Buy a mat or a hair broom; a street vendor plys his trade
Cane Seller 1804Come buy me jemmies; a street vendor sells canes
Italian Ice Cream SellerAn Italian ice cream seller draws a crowd in the East End of London
Paris Ice Cream SellerA street vendor in Paris sells ice cream to a girl and a little boy
Ice Cream Vendor 1877An Italian (?) ice cream vendor surrounded by hungry boys
Social / Ice Cream StallAn ice cream vendor is kept very busy with orders from the children flocking around his stall Date: circa 1900
French Fishwife / 1850A French fishwife
Dickens / Mutual FriendSilas Wegg - rascalous street vendor with a wooden leg
French Newsboy 19CA French newspaper vendor on a street corner
Fried Fish SellerA vendor of friture (fried fish) - she also provides bread from the loaf in her basket
French Ice CreamA French street ice-cream vendor
Marchand De TisaneFrench vendor of tisane (herbal tea)
Vegetable VendorA street trader sells fish and vegetables from his horse in a Portuguese street market
Wall Street in 1774Somewhat less hectic than today, the street is populated by elegant New Yorkers and a vendor of tea water, outside the City Hall
Cocoa Drink SellerA French vendor of cocoa or hot chocolate