general/obsolete-occupations

Procurer of medicinal leeches

Person enslaved or sentenced to row in a galley

Person responsible for a cargo

Painter, generally of miniatures or of portraits

Obsolete UK royal servant position

Defunct dealer in a range of chemical products

Vendor who sells ice from a wagon

Person employed to light and maintain street lights

Government official required to take up permanent residence in another country

Someone who scavenges in the sewers

Clerk, scribe, or notary

Specialist in making runestones

Operator who uses a telegraph key to send and receive the Morse code

Apprentice in a printing establishment

Female domestic worker who cares for children

Cutting of ice in winter that is stored for cooling in summer