Bootblack Collection

Thessaloniki, Greece - Bootblack Date: circa 1916

Thessaloniki - Street Traders and Foreign Military Personnel
Street Traders, including a shoeshine boy, a cigarette seller and a porter - all finding plenty of cutom amongst the foreign troops staioned in Thessaloniki (Indian, French and British)

Abraham Lincoln, a play by John Drinkwater, performed at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1918 and at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, West London, from 1918 to 1919. 1919

Algeria - A Young Ouled Bootblack. Date: circa 1907

Algerian Shoeshine Boy. Date: circa 1907

The Enthusiastic Bootblack by H M Bateman, starts with an innocent scenario, a man needs his shoes polished, but the Bootblack on the street is an earnest and hardworking type

Shoeshine boy, Egypt. Date: circa 1870

Paul Biston the 1st - The King of Boot-blacks
A very odd postcard depicting Paul Biston the 1st - The King of Boot-blacks in highly regal pose ! Date: circa 1905

Little girl polishing her Fathers boots - studio portrait. Date: circa 1885

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