View of an advertising card for Pingree & Smith footwear of Detroit, Michigan. Card depicts a fireman in bed, with one eye open and one hand on pair of boots on floor. Printed on front: "The fireman. Always sleeps with one foot out of bed, his hands on his boots, both ears and one eye open. Buy Pingree & Smith's reliable foot-wear. For sale by leading dealers throughout Michigan and the west. (over)." Printed on back: "$1000.00 reward! For shoddy or spurious leather of any kind found in any shoe made by us in the past twenty-three years. Pingree & Smith, Detroit, Mich. Pioneer shoe manufacturers of the west. Established 1866. There's nothing like leather, we use no imitations."
