Peddler
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A peddler or pedlar is a door-to-door and/or traveling vendor of goods. In 19th-century United States the word "drummer" was often used to refer to a peddler or traveling salesman; as exemplified in t
A Peking fruit seller, c. 1869
Peddler in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Three East Karelian "laukkuryssä" peddlers from Kestenga, Russia in Lohja, Finland in the late 19th century.
Ribbon seller at the entrance to the Butter Market, engraving by J.J. Eeckhout, 1884
Farmer's daughter
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The farmer's daughter or farm girl is a stock character and stereotype in fiction for the daughter of a farmer, who is often portrayed as a desirable and naïve young woman. She is described as being a
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…jokes. Such jokes are typically bawdy, and usually feature small town rubes, farmers and other country folk, and frequently another stock character, the farmer's daughter. Throughout much of Europe, suspicions of dishonest or petty criminal activity was long associated with peddlers and travelers. Regulations to discourage…
"The Farmer's Daughter" (date unknown), by John Everett Millais (1829–1896)