This steam whistle was used at Tiffany & Co., first at Union Square from the 1870s through 1905, and then at Fifth Avenue and 37th Streets. It was donated by the firm in 1940 when they moved to their present location on 5th Avenue and 57th Street. The whistle was presumably used to signal the start and end of workers' shifts.

This mid-19th century seal press incorporates the original seal of the New York Chamber of Commerce. The seal was made in London in 1770, the year the Chamber was incorporated. Supposedly the last colonial president of the Chamber and keeper of the seal, Isaac Low, took the seal to England in 1783 when he fled with the British troops. It was discovered years later in a curiosity shop and returned to the Chamber of Commerce.

During the Victorian era, button hooks were an important accessory for well-dressed men and women. Ladies used elegant button hooks, often made of sterling and ivory, to fasten the numerous buttons on their elbow-length gloves, and men used hooks for their shoes and spats. This example was probably given away to customers at Frazin & Oppenheim, a shoe company located at the heart of the shopping district known as Ladies' Mile. Original partners Louis Frazin and Abraham M. Oppenheim operated the store together from about 1897 until 1914, when it became the Frazin Shoe Company. The store went out of business in the early 1920s.