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16 photos tagged shoeshine, from 6 members of Flickr Commons.

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De Luca (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Richard Norton said:

  Giuseppe De Luca (25 December 1876 – 26 August 1950), was an Italian baritone. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_De_Luca

• Jon (LOC P&P) said:

  Thank you for the identification Richard Norton.

Jew[ish] New Year - boot black (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Randy Reiss said:

  typo in the heder, obviously -- Jewish New Year

• The Library of Congress said:

  undeadsinatra: Thanks for the information! The spelling in the original caption could easily have been wrong. We’ll look into it. (It won't change right away because we need to keep the information we show here in Flickr and in our own catalog (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html) in sync.)

• Lauren said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Jewish People and History - Ancient and Modern, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

[Cat on shoe shine stand on sidewalk] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Robert Marcello said:

  I was a shoeshine boy back in the 60’s in Miami at the Seaboard RR Station! Not only did I make good

• Robert Marcello said:

  Money, but met a many good people including GI’s that were heading to Nam. I was only 10 and did not know the gravity of the situation that the boys were heading over too!