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Shops in a medieval French town

Apothecary, barber, furrier, and tailor shops along a street in the 1400s.
Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of a medieval illustration

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1400s, 15th Century, Apothecary, Art, Barber, Barber Shop, Business, Buy, City, Cloth, Clothing, Cobble Stone, Cobbled, Commerce, Daily Life, Drug, Drug Store, Druggist, Europe, European, France, French, Fur, Furrier, Historic Heritage Vintage Traditional Old Fashioned, History, Illustration, Market, Medicine, Medieval, Merchant, Middle Ages, Peddler, Sell, Shop, Store, Street, Street Vendor, Tailor, Town, Trade, Village

Clergy collecting tax from medieval merchants

Tax on markets levied by a member of the clergy, Tournay, France, 1400s.
Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of a medieval illustration

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1200s, 13th Century, Art, Basket, Business, Buy, Church, City, Clergy, Cleric, Commerce, Currency, Daily Life, Egg, Europe, European, Farmers Market, Food, France, French, Historic Heritage Vintage Traditional Old Fashioned, History, Illustration, Market, Medieval, Merchant, Middle Ages, Money, Peddler, Poultry, Priest, Religion, Religious, Sell, Shop, Street, Street Vendor, Tax, Tax Collector, Taxation, Tithe, Tournay, Town, Trade, Urban

White men bringing cleanliness to native cultures, 1890s

"White man's burden" is to teach cleanliness, described in a Pears Soap ad, 1890s.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

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