One sample from a green velvet saleman's sample kit displaying thirty five shoe horns, button hooks and combination shoe devices of different styles. A gray metal shoe horn with a folding button hook on the handle end engraved "A. Kasper/ Good Shoes and Skilled Repairing/ Willmette, Ill."

One sample from a green velvet saleman's sample kit displaying thirty five shoe horns, button hooks and combination shoe devices of different styles. A rusted metal folding flat button hook engraved "Weiss Bros./ Men's Shoes." Looks like a pocket knife when folded.

One sample from a green velvet saleman's sample kit displaying thirty five shoe horns, button hooks and combination shoe devices of different styles. A gray metal folding flat button hook engraved "Moser's Shoe Store". Looks like a pocket knife when folded.

This tiny wooden canister has a brown paper wrapper, still sealed, that reads in orange "S. Lorraine, M.D./ Cathartic Pills/ 96 Camb. St./ Boston", also in French.

This wooden canister has a paper label and once contained Cold Tablets. The label reads, in part, "Pape's Cold Compound/ Each Ounce Contains 55 grains Acetanilide/ Follow the same Directions Always for/ Colds, Grippe, Headache, Neuralgia/ Pape, Thompson and Pape Co./ Sterling Products Successor/ Wheeling, W.VA./ Price 35 Cents."

This glass bottle is still wrapped in its original paper packet with advertising insert. The outside packet and bottle label read "100/ William R.Warner & Co.'s/ Original Pill Cascara Cathartic/(Dr. Hinkle)", with ingredients list and a description of the action and effectiveness of the product. Contained both belladonna and strychnine, poisonous in high dosages.

This cylindrical clear glass bottle has a machine finished plastic pop top and a paper label that reads, in part, "12 Tablets/ Antacid Analgesic/ Bufferin/ Bristol-Myers Co., New York".

This oval clear glass bottle has a machine finished plastic screw top and a paper label that reads, in part, "Phospho-Soda/ (Fleet)/ C.B. Fleet Co. Inc./ Manufacturing Chemists/ Lynchburg, Va./ Professional Sample", with instructions for use.

This tiny oval clear glass bottle has a machine finished metal screw top and a paper label that reads, in part, "Tablets of Aspirin/ B.P./ Dose-1 to 3/ John Harley Ltd./ London W.12/ & Branches."

This tiny cylindrical clear glass bottle has a machine finished metal screw top and a paper label that reads, in part, "Absorbine Jr..../ W.F. Young, Inc/ Springfield, Mass", with instructions for use. The cap is embossed with an "A".