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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.

Amoy (Xiamen), Fukien province, China: a shop. Photograph by John Thomson, ca. 1870.

[British Red Cross Society leaflet asking for volunteers to work in their charity shops].

[Leaflet advertising the American Red Cross shop at 587 Fifth Avenue].

Two children wait nervously while an alchemist secretively concocts a mixture at his stove. Pen and wash drawing by G. Robinson.

Above Bar Street, Southampton, Hampshire. Coloured engraving by P. Brannon, 1846.

A surgeon applying the method of cupping to Ragotin, who believes his body has swelled in his sleep. Engraving by G. Huquier the elder after J.B. Oudry.

A Frenchman in a tobacconist's declares he will take snuff to defy the increasing tax on tobacco. Coloured lithograph after H. Demare, c. 1870.

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: interior of a reconstruction of a seventeenth-century English apothecary's shop. Photograph.

Two shops or market stalls, in Korea.

An interior of 'Marshalls', a famous dentist's shop near Berwick Street, Soho. Watercolour, 1789.

People walking in a street of Port Louis, Mauritius. Wood engraving after H.G. Robley, 1881.

India: a pastry cook's shop. Watercolour, 18--.

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Stores, Retail

Images from the collections

Images referencing Stores, Retail

Works from the collections

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: interior of a reconstruction of a seventeenth-century English apothecary's shop. Photograph.

Two shops or market stalls, in Korea.

An interior of 'Marshalls', a famous dentist's shop near Berwick Street, Soho. Watercolour, 1789.

People walking in a street of Port Louis, Mauritius. Wood engraving after H.G. Robley, 1881.

India: a pastry cook's shop. Watercolour, 18--.

Stores, Retail

Images from the collections

Images referencing Stores, Retail

Works from the collections

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: interior of a reconstruction of a seventeenth-century English apothecary's shop. Photograph.

Two shops or market stalls, in Korea.

An interior of 'Marshalls', a famous dentist's shop near Berwick Street, Soho. Watercolour, 1789.

People walking in a street of Port Louis, Mauritius. Wood engraving after H.G. Robley, 1881.

India: a pastry cook's shop. Watercolour, 18--.

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