A grocer with some of his wares, c.1820: *the main exhibit site* (Univ. of Pennsylvania)

Source: http://www.library.upenn.edu/etext/sasia/persian-mss/crafts1820/036lg.jpg
(downloaded Nov. 1999)

"From: The Illustrated Book About Makers Of Glassware, etc., And A Description of Their Tools, by Ghulam Yahya. Edited, Translated and Introduced by Mehr Afshan Farooqi. This Indo-Persian manuscript, written by Ghulam Yahya, son of Maulvi Imad-ud-din Lepakni, around 1820, in Bareilly District (United Provinces), India, for British magistrate, Mr. Robert Glyn, describes eleven trades or occupations current at the time. The text contains important ethnographic, economic and technological data."




"Bazaar, Barhampore," from 'Views in India, Saint Helena, and Car Nicobar', by John Luard, London, 1832-34

Source: ebay, Sept. 2013

"Market stall, India," a photo by John Saché , c.1870

Source: ebay, Nov. 2007

"Corn-chandler of Patna," from a French magazine, 'Le Tour du Monde', 1874; *a very large scan of this engraving*; and here is *the photo on which it was based*, from 'The People of India', J. F. Watson and J. W. Kaye, 1868 onward; *another version, retitled once again, 1881*

Source: ebay, Feb. 2008


"Native shop of Bazaar Street, Calcutta," from the Illustrated London News, 1874; a reproduction of *a chromolithograph by William Simpson, 1867* (BL)

Source: ebay, Oct. 2008

*"A Bengalee Beniah or Grain-seller," Illustrated London News, 1874*

Source: ebay, Jan. 2010

*"Bulandshahr Market-place," from the 'Journal of Indian Arts', London, 1890*

Source: ebay, Jan. 2012

"Selling barley by weight in Jeypore," a stereoscopic view, 1908

Source: ebay, Sept. 2008

A roadside grocer, 1910's, Simla (?); *another street market, at a hill station (?)*

Source: ebay, May 2007
"Vegetable vendor, Bombay," a postcard, early 1900's

Source: ebay, Aug. 2009

*"Meat markets," a photo taken by an American army nurse during World War II*

Source: ebay, Aug. 2009



"Jodhpur market," a news bureau photo, 1950's

Source: ebay, Dec. 2008

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