A ladder to retrieve a shoe from the floor.  As above, so below.  From Kladderadatsch, 1920.

From Lustige Blätter, 1907.

From Lustige Blätter, 1907.

Looking at the forbidden shoe.  From Lustige Blätter, 1915.

From Jugend, 1907.

From Kladderadatsch, 1926.

Here's a precursor to Werner Herzog living up to his promise that he would eat his shoe if Errol Morris ever completed the film Gates of Heaven.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1905.

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From Swedish Fairy Tales by Herman Hofberg, 1890.

Palmistry and scarpology (divination by old boots, as invented by Dr. Garré of Switzerland).  From Die Muskete, 1937.

From Mocca, 1935.

From Die Muskete, 1917.