Male clothing in Victorian Period
Victorian Period city life,
Thames River
Street-Seller,
Child Labor in the Victorian Period
Steamboat,
Lithograph postcard
]]> Shoe-Black shining a Gentleman's shoe near the Thames River, London, England]]> cleaned boots and shoes for a living.

This shoe shiner was most likely from the London Shoe-Black Brigade, which was formed in the 1850's to offer a better wage for children that were shoe-shiners. In the evenings they could attend Ragged Schools which were schools that offered free education of destitute children in 19th-century Britain. Those employed by London Shoe-Black Brigade wore colored jackets based on the location they would occupy. ]]>
and: http://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/XD141009/The-Soldier?img=1&search=Robert+Sauber+%28after%29&bool=phrase

For information on shoeblacks see: http://www.victorianlondon.org/publications4/peopled-01.htm

and: http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/files/3213/7036/0863/WhatwaslifeforchildreninVictorianLondon.pdf]]> ]]> ]]> ff4_shoeblack_verso.jpg]]>