Images Dated 15th February 2017

Victorian boy shining shoes

A 19th century adolescent boy at work cleaning shoes. He probably works for a moneyed household as the boot boy'. From "Sunday Reading for the Young", published in 1895 by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co, London. With articles and poems by various authors and illustrations by various artists

© Digitally restored by Linda Steward - Linda Steward

666271732, Boot Boy, Shoe Cleaner

Frontispiece to plays by John Davidson by Aubrey Beardsley

Design for a frontispiece to John Davidson's plays by Aubrey Beardsley, featuring caricatures of Sir Augustus Harris, theatre manager; Oscar Wilde; Beardsley's sister Mabel (nude woman); Henry Harland, literary editor of the Yellow Book (faun); poet Richard Le Gallienne (masked figure); dancer Adeline Genee (ballerina). Date: 1894

© Mary Evans Picture Library

Studio photo, two brothers in uniform, WW1

Studio photo, two young brothers in uniform, Christmas 1914. They are Albert Auerbach (1894-1918) of the 20th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (right), and Harold Auerbach (1897-1975), a pupil at St Paul's School, in his Officers Training Corps uniform (left). Date: 1914

© The Patricia Aubrey Collection / Mary Evans

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