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".

This cylindrical cobalt blue glass bottle has a hand finished cork lip with a cork with a paper label that reads in yellow on black "S & D/ Manufacturing Chemists/ Baltimore".

This amber glass bottle has a hand finished cork lip and is shaped like a decanter with a bulbous body and a narrow tapering octagonally faceted neck. It has a paper label printed with a eagle on a shield and is embossed around the widest part "Eagle Angostura Bark Bitters". A narrow paper label with instructions and a product description encircles the bottle but is mostly illegible. "Bitters" medicines, before the 1906 Food and Drug Act, were mostly designed to market strongly alcoholic beverages free from liquor taxes and temperance restrictions.