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Women fish vendors in Donostia in the mid-nineteenth century. Reproduction of an engraving depicted by Luis de Madariaga in El país vasco-navarro [The Basque-Navarrese country]

Fish vendors in Donostia in the mid-nineteenth century. Reproduction of an engraving depicted by Luis de Madariaga in El país vasco-navarro [The Basque-Navarrese country].

Rather than seeking to provide a comprehensive account of trades from the past that are disappearing, or that have become practically extinct, here we shall confine ourselves to the city of Gernika-Lumo (Bizkaia), for many of these below would have been likewise known in neighbouring localities and further afield in the country. Some people exercised their skills door to door; others worked in workshops, stores and other premises. (more…)

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