A Jewish shoe cleaner in the streets of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. From the Camera Obscura, a collection of Dutch humorous-realistic essays, stories and sketches in which Hildebrand, the author, takes an ironic look at the behavior of the 'well-to-do', finding them bourgeois and without a good word for them.

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Size: 3362px × 4710px
Location: Haarlem, The Netherlands
Photo credit: © De Luan / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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