This tiny white box has a color print of a mother and baby on both sides and reads "Mother's/ Always Fresh and Sweet/ Crushed Oats". The sides have directions for preparation.

This tiny brown box held a sample of cereal. It reads on the front "Fully Cooked, Pre-Digested, Breakfast Food/ Grape-Nuts/ A food for the brain and nerve centres....". The box text attributes many pseudoscientific health benefits to the product. The back has directions for preparation.

This tiny brown box held a sample of cereal. It reads on the front "Fully Cooked, Pre-Digested, Breakfast Food/ Grape-Nuts/ A food for the brain and nerve centres....". The box text attributes many pseudoscientific health benefits to the product. The back has directions for preparation.

This tiny brown box has a drawing of a colonial woman with a cat cooking at an open hearth. The front reads " Post Toasties/ A Compound of Corn, Sugar and Salt/ Manufactured by Postum Cereal Company, Ltd." The back has directions for preparation.

This tiny yellow and blue cardboard box held a sample of "Wheatena/ For Breakfast Eat/ The All Wheat Food". Made by the "Wheatena Co. New York". The back has directions for preparation.

This tiny yellow and blue cardboard box held a sample of "Wheatena/ An All Wheat Food/ An All Day Food/ Eat Wheatena for Breakfast". Made by the "Wheatena Co. New York". The back has directions for preparation.

This tiny green, white and red cardboard box held a sample of "Kellogg's Toasted Corn Flakes". It reads on one side "Pure, Crisp, Delicious, Appetizing/ Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake Co./ Battle Creek, Mich." See also 2002.1.877, 858

This tiny green, white and red cardboard box held a sample of "Kellogg's Toasted Corn Flakes". It reads on one side "Pure, Crisp, Delicious, Appetizing/ Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake Co./ Battle Creek, Mich." See also 2002.1.877, 859

This tiny green, white and red cardboard box held a sample of "Kellogg's Toasted Corn Flakes". It reads on one side "Pure, Crisp, Delicious, Appetizing/ Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake Co./ Battle Creek, Mich." See also 2002.1.858, 859

This woman's folding hand fan is beige on one side with a printed black floral border, a monogram "CPC" and reads "Casino/ Central Park/ New York". Eye slits have been cut through the fan leaf and the reverse is a black and white harlequin face mask on a gold foil background.