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Stores, Retail

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  • A man comes to a shop to sell a fish to a woman who sells poultry, fish and vegetables, watched by a cat. Engraving by J. Burnet after W. Mieris.
  • Three women in a gin shop divert the landlady's attention while a match boy steals her money. Mezzotint, c. 1765.
  • The blind school, Southwark. Coloured engraving by R. Acon, 1829, after T. H. Shepherd.
  • [Card advertising the American Red Cross shop at 587 Fifth Avenue].
  • Customers drink and smoke in a spirit shop in South Africa. Wood engraving, c. 1877.
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    Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: interior of a reconstruction of a seventeenth-century English apothecary's shop. Photograph.

    | Date: 1927 | Reference: 28915i
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    Two shops or market stalls, in Korea.

    | Date: [approximately 1900] | Reference: 541867i
    Part of: The Fallaize Collection.
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    An interior of 'Marshalls', a famous dentist's shop near Berwick Street, Soho. Watercolour, 1789.

    | Date: 1789 | Reference: 16585i
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    People walking in a street of Port Louis, Mauritius. Wood engraving after H.G. Robley, 1881.

    Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840- | Date: [1881] | Reference: 577873i
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    India: a pastry cook's shop. Watercolour, 18--.

    | Date: [between 1800 and 1899?] | Reference: 774462i
    Part of: Trades and occupations in India. Watercolours, 18--.
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