Marketplace Images

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North America

USA
Other North America

Rest of the World

Africa
Asia: China, Hong Kong, Indian Subcontinent, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines Thailand, Vietnam
Other Asia
Australia
Europe: Britain, France, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Spain, Russia & Eastern Europe
Latin America/Caribbean
Middle East: Egypt, Lebanon, Other Middle East

Miscellaneous Images

North America

U.S.A. - By State

• Farmers Market, Bellingham, Alaska (35k)
• Chinese Vegetable Vendor, Tuscon, Arizona, 1904 (32k)
• Vendor Shelling Pecans, Aiken Farmers Market, Augusta, Georgia (25k)
• Farmers Market, Hawaii - (links to three pictures)
• Old Maxwell Street Market, Chicago, Illinois (Photos taken just before its destruction)
• Homeless man collecting cans - Covington, Kentucky by John Decker (23k)
• Haymarket, Boston, Massachusetts
• Peanut Vendor, Boston, Massachusetts, by James Boswell (44k)
• Quincy Market, Boston Massachusetts
• Pushcart from Little Italy Festival, New York
• New York City Hot Dog Stand and Soho Market
• Jimmy Johnson, Peanut Vendor, ca .1890, Princeton (23k)

U.S.A. - Miscellaneous

• Amish Farmers Market Stichery Sampler (55k)

Canada

• Kensington Market, Toronto by Sylvana & Hans Grisonich-Boldt
• Welland, Ontario Farmers Market (79k)

Rest of the World

Africa

• Market Images of the Dogon people, Mali, by Jose Azel

• Weekly market at Sangha
  • Man drinking from gourd
  • Weekly market at Kani Kombo
• Kamwala Market, Zambia, by Tim Truluck

Asia

China

• Beijing Market pictures from C-SPAN
• Bird Market, Xi'an (46k)
• Chilli Peppers and Potatoes at a street stall, by Bruce Tindall (83k)
• Produce sold on street, Xi'an (34k)
• Beijing street activities, (5 pix toward bottom of page)
  

• Hong Kong
  • Key Cutter on a Street Corner, (29k)
  • Woman weighing vegetables, (25k)

Indian Subcontinent

• Banana transporter, Calcutta, India(31k)
• Hawkers. Sellers. Merchants: An exhibition of Indian merchants and their merchandise by K. L. Kamat
• Market in Kathmandu, Nepal, by Karen Baden Thapa
• Rickshaw drivers in Kathmandu, Nepal, by Jerry Riley (75k)
• Street Barber, Calcutta, India (27k)
• Street Scene with Vegetable Vendors, Kathmandu, Nepal, by Jerry Riley (80k)
• Street vendor in Varanasi, by Matjaz Vrecko
• Vegetable Stall, Bombay, India (131k)
• Vegetable vendor, Crawford Market, Mumbai, India
• Vendors by stoop, Calcutta, India (64k)
• Weekly market in Salleri, Nepal by Steve Conlon (26k)
• Young Sherpa selling radishes , Nepal, by Steven Conlon (22k)
• Photos from Nepal, by Ian Cummings
  • Namche Bazaar, aerial view (28k)
  • Namche Bazaar, trinkets booth (35k)
  • Senasa Market (29k)
  • Sleepy Fruit Vendor (158k)
  • Supermarket (32k)
  • Traveling Butcher (35k)

Indonesia

• Tanah Abang street market in Jakarta by Nina Suwarno
• Bakso vendor, Bali (16k) -- National spicy noodle soup dish
• Bali Market Scene Painting by Dewa Made Bawa (94k)
• Dancers at Camel Fair
• Denpasar market stall, Bali (22k)
• Durian Fruitstand, by Daniel Greenhouse (42k)
• Floating Market (53k)
• Fruit Market, Bali (54k)
• Market Stall
• Typical Market Stall (630 k)
• Vegetables for Sale Maumere Flores (66k)

Japan

• Narita Market Food Stall (66k)
• Vendor cooking food (184k)
  

Malaysia

• Market scene, Kohta Bahru (20k)

Philippines

• Flower Sellers, Cebu (31k)
• Market at Cavite

Thailand

• Fruit Juice Vendor, by Tim Richards and Narrelle Harris (29k)
• Hua Hin Night market
• Phuket Night Shopping
• Pillow Market, Thailand (32k)

Vietnam

• Vietnamese Scenes, photographs by Waco Moore
  • Fruit Vendor in Ho Chi Minh City(79kk)
  • Rooftop view of covered market (75k)
  • Vendors on the steps of the Central Market Dalat (62k)
  • Snack Vendor, Dalat (70k)

Other Asia

• Market Stall, Sri Lanka (55k)
• Taipei Hwahsi Tourist Night Market (39k)
• Vegetable Market (21k)

Australia

• Fremantle Market, Australia (29k)
• Riverside Markets, Brisbane (54k)
• Salamanca Market, Hobart (41k)

Europe

Britain

France

• Bouquinistes (The Old Book Sellers) du Quai Malaquais, Paris (13k)
• Market Day Discussion Vaison-la-Romaine, Provence, by Howard Dinin (24k)

Greece

• Flower Market in Ancient Greece

Ireland

• Statue of Molly Malone (famous street vendor), Dublin

Italy

• Market Stall, Umbria, by Andrew McGarrell
• Vegetable Stand, Venice by Andrew Mather (55k)

Netherlands

Scandinavia

• Bergen Fish Market, Norway (20k)
• Kauppatori Market, Helsinki, Finland (222k)
• Old Market Square, Keskustori, Finland (around 1900)

Spain

• Ibiza Old Market
• Market, Barcelona (50k)
• Sidewalk Artist at Work in the Ramblas, by Karl Weatherly (65k)
• Street Dancer and Clown

Russia & Eastern Europe

• Bill Clinton Satirical Souvenirs, Moscow
• Family Singing on the Street, Russia (20k)
• Izmailovsky Park flea market, Russia - Communist Souvenirs (8k)
• The Market Day, by Ilya Kagan (31k)
• Moscow Flower Seller, by Brian Cannon (79k)
• Moscow Saturday, photos by Andrey Sebrant. (6/20 images are markets - 2nd half of page) (105k)
• Vendors on Lenin Street in Chita, Russia
  • Seller with overturned boxes (16k)
  • Boy with bucket of potatoes (10k)
• Bratislava Street Market, Slovakia (15k) from U of N. Iowa joint education project
• Sponge Vendor, Moscow

Latin America / Caribbean

Mexico

• Days of the Dead vendors, Mexico, by John Greenleigh Studios
• Mexico City Street Vendors: A photo tour with text by John Cross (500K)
• Mexican Street Scenes- by Don Mabry - includes (towards bottom of page): street band, ice cream vendor, cotton candy vendor, and street photographer
• More Mexican Street Scenes by Bob O'Lary
• Street Clown Family, by Stuart Franklin (55k), by
• Woman selling from blanket on sidewalk (20k), by John Boswell

Other Latin America

• Fish stand at night, Chile (10k)
• Haitian Fruit Seller by Wilson Bigaud (93k)
• Indian Vendor, Columbia, by Krzysztof Dydynski (7k)
• Peruvian Market by Karen Baden Thapa (31k)
• Sololá Market, Guatemala by Tom Brosnahan
• Vegetable vendor in Havana's Chinese market (55k)
• Witchmarket in La Paz, Peru (66k)

Middle East

Egypt

• Tour a "souk" in Egypt: 11 pictures of a neighborhood street market in Cairo by John and Rebeca Cross (600K
• Khan il Khalili & Environs--photo tour of an Egyptian tourist bazaar. 9 pictures and text by John and Rebeca Cross (900K)

Israel

• Tel Aviv Market Scenes, by Steve Sundman

Lebanon

• Photos from souks, by Antonio Reime
  • Shopkeeper in Saida Souk (100k)
  • Spices (74k)
  • Vegetable carts in Saida Souk (75k)
  • Watermelons in Saida Souk (72k)
  • Worry Beads (103k)

• Miscellaneous Images
  • Fish Stand from Playmobil (complete with customers, fish and scale!)
  • Fishmonger (46K)
  • Ice Cream Vendor (72K)
  • Street Artist painting Mona Lisa on Sidewalk
  • Street Performers, Street Vendors and Market Scenes from around the world, by Janet and John Anderson
  • Street Scenes of Istanbul, by Walter Vanderhaegen
  • Street Vendor at Night, by Jeff Spirer

Special Sources

To utilize these sources, try searching such terms as: "market", "peddler", "vendor", or "street"

• American Memory Collection Search This electronic archive is provided by the Library of Congress and contains images from all over the world
  • Search specific collections, specific media (such as photos or movies), or search entire collection
  • Collection includes Detroit Publishing Company postcards, Daguerreotypes from 1842-1862, and items from many other wonderful sources
• Alta Vista Photo Finder
• International Labor Organization Photos of Street Vendors
• Tips on Travel Photography, by Stan Tamarkin. Includes street vendor and mime as examples.

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