While you can buy all kinds of shoe racks, few if any include a bench that is handy for putting on your shoes. Now you can ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. A black and white photograph of a ...

Nelson Bumpers spent nearly three decades polishing loafers, derbies and everything in between at his shoe shine stand inside Charleston's largest hotel. In that time, the downtown hotel changed hands ...

Shoe shiner Christopher “Olajuwon” Mitchell has been a fixture in downtown San Francisco for much of the last 40 years, often bedecked in San Francisco 49ers gear and Hawaiian bead necklaces. “Shine ...

To find the cobblers on this list, we polled dozens of New Yorkers, including fashion wholesalers, shoe designers, and creative consultants. The winning cobblers, one of whom has been in business ...

David Begnaud is a CBS News contributor and previously served as the lead national correspondent for "CBS Mornings," based in New York City. Analisa Novak is a content producer for CBS News and the ...

Rudolph Smith starts by cleaning each shoe with a cloth rag, clearing dust before applying a polish base. The 88-year-old lifelong Houstonian, who everyone calls Mr. Rudy, is particular about his ...

When you're the new shoeshine guy at the Tulsa County courthouse, you have to wait around a little for customers. Boston Torrence started work this month, and some assistant district attorneys were ...

Forest Jay Pitts, 100, formerly of Hutchinson, died May 16, 2023, at Newton Presbyterian Manor, Newton. He was born April 30, 1923, in Jetmore, to Charles and Sarah Paton (Freerksen) Pitts. As a child ...

Shine King has been doing business a block south of the Green Line since 1970. I shine my shoes with a Kiwi Leather Care Kit I bought at Walgreens: a sponge applicator, a horsehair brush, a rag, and ...

DAVID, WHO runs a well-trafficked shoe-shine stand at a huge convention centre just outside Washington, was in a good mood as he surveyed the delegates at a recent event there. They were attending the ...