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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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GATL2A-00036

Natives loading a schooner with coconuts at Kingston, Jamaica.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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GAFR2A-00021

Egyptians drawing Nile water with a shadoof, a counterbalanced device used since ancient times.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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