The silver-gray lace cuffs Nomi wears throughout the episode are hand knit from the Victorian Lace Cuffs pattern designed by Caroline Steinford.
In 1905, Richard Hellman began selling his wife's homemade recipe in his New York delicatessen. It became so popular that Hellmann began selling it in "wooden boats" that were used for weighing butter. In 1912, he sold "Hellman's Blue Ribbon Mayonnaise" in large, wide-mouth glass bottles.
At 31:57 there is in the foreground a sign advertising Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, the "Coloured Composer". Coleridge-Taylor (was indeed Britain's foremost composer and conductor of African descent. His mother was an Englishwoman and his father was was a Krio (Creole) from Sierra Leone. His most popular work was the cantata "Hiawatha's Wedding Feast", which for a time was staged annually at the Royal Albert Hall.