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Market vendor serving a customer at a cheese counter – Historic Print

Market vendor serving a customer at a cheese counter — historic image
Market vendor serving a customer at a cheese counter. Historic image from the Barns & Farms collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Market vendor serving a customer at a cheese counter. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Market vendor serving a customer at a cheese counter

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A vendor in a white apron leans over a wooden counter to hand a wrapped wedge to a customer, with rounds and blocks of cheese stacked behind her on the shelves. The scene reflects how farm-made dairy reached town shoppers in the early twentieth century, when a market stall or general store counter was often the main link between a dairy and the household kitchen. Notice the careful, personal exchange at the counter, a reminder that buying cheese then depended on the seller's knife, scale and judgment as much as on the goods themselves.

Original scan4,085 × 3,369 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
Referencetif12693_VendorattheFirstAvenueMarketsl

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