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Shoe shiners

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• Service industries workers

• Shoe shiners -- Fiction
• Shoe shiners -- Juvenile fiction

• Bootblacks
• Shoe polishers
• Shoeshiner

• Ragged Dick, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text and audio)

• Ned Newton: or, The Fortunes of a New York Bootblack (Brave and Bold #57; 1904), by Horatio Alger (PDF at usf.edu)
• Tom, the Bootblack: or, The Road to Success, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Topper (originally published 1926; this edition Garden City, NY: Sun Dial Press, 1942), by Thorne Smith (multiple formats at FadedPage)

• Peter: A Novel of Which He Is Not the Hero, by Francis Hopkinson Smith (Gutenberg text)
• Peter: A Novel of Which He Is Not The Hero (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1912), by Francis Hopkinson Smith, illust. by Arthur Ignatius Keller (multiple formats at Google)

• The Life of a Chef (New York: Comet Press Books, 1958), by Edward F. Mathieu (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Life of a Chef (New York: Comet Press Books, 1958), by Edward F. Mathieu (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Life of a Chef (New York: Comet Press Books, 1958), by Edward F. Mathieu (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Domestic Cook Book, Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen, by Malinda Russell, An Experienced Cook, Paw Paw, Michigan, 1866: A Facsimile of the First Known Cookbook by an African American (Ann Arbor: W. L. Clements Library, c2007), by Malinda Russell, ed. by Janice Bluestein Longone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rebecca's Cookbook (Washington, 1942), by Rebecca West (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Domestic Cook Book, Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen (Paw Paw, MI: Printed by T. O. Ward, 1866), by Malinda Russell (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Sound and the Fury (New York: Random House, c1929), by William Faulkner
  • multiple formats with commentary at FadedPage
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Setting the Table for Julia Child: Gourmet Dining in America, 1934-1961 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2011), by David Strauss (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Hotel Keepers, Head Waiters, and Housekeepers' Guide (Boston: Coolidge and Wiley, 1848), by Tunis G. Campbell (multiple formats with commentary at MSU)

• The Waiters (Cleveland and New York: World Pub. Co., c1953), by William Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)