This is a picture of a shoe department in Summerside, PEI in 1911. On the shelves, there are boxes with shoes in them. Those shoes on the shelves are all different sizes, and the shelves go up about 20 feet in the air. If you wanted to get a size 9, the clerk got on the ladder on the side of the wall, slid across the wall and grabbed a size 9.

Shoes were used a lot in the 1900's and were important to people. Shoes were advertised in many catalogues, such as Holman's Catalog. People usually used the catalogue to look at the items or to pick a gift by looking through the pages.