As technology transforms society, jobs that were once common are disappearing around the world. The people who hold these jobs are often keeping up generations-old shops or clinging to their rare expertise. 

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The Agence France-Presse recently sent photographers around the world to document men and women who were largely "the last of" in their fields of work. The now rare jobs range from an employee at a DVD store in Sydney, Austrlia to a gas lamp light engineer part of a five-man team in London, England. 

Click through the above slideshow to see what other jobs are becoming a rarity.

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