general/obsolete-occupations

Female domestic worker who cares for children

Procurer of medicinal leeches

Defunct dealer in a range of chemical products

Person responsible for a cargo

Painter, generally of miniatures or of portraits

Obsolete UK royal servant position

Person employed to light and maintain street lights

Vendor who sells ice from a wagon

Person enslaved or sentenced to row in a galley

Specialist in making runestones

Government official required to take up permanent residence in another country

Clerk, scribe, or notary

Apprentice in a printing establishment

Someone who scavenges in the sewers

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

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