Subject: Business directories

This advertisement features Huestis & Levy, a manufacturer of single and double head playing cards, including Spanish cards of superior quality. Their business, the Union Card Manufactory, was located at 177 & 179 Grand Street, near the Odd Fellows Hall, New York. The item includes an outstanding engraved illustration of the factory/storefront, depicting a multi-story building with a sign for "Union Card Manufactory" and various architectural details, typical of mid-19th century commercial illustrations. The text is presented in a bold, ornate style. This advertisement was originally printed in a New York Business Directory from 1854 or 1855.

One page excerpt from a business directory, likely part of the *Wheeling, West Virginia Statistical Gazetteer*. The excerpt features an entry for Isaac J. Seligman's business, the Old Dominion Clothing Store, dated 1855. This item is from the collection, Arc.MS.56, Box 13, Folder 7.

This trade card features an engraved portrait of John Hancock on the front, with the name "Hancock" printed below and "Bufford Boston" in the bottom right corner, indicating the publisher or printer. The reverse side presents a "Directory of Reliable Business Men on Fulton Street, BROOKLYN," listing various businesses, their industries, and street numbers. Businesses include a one-price clothier, cigar store, hotel and restaurant, saddle & harness maker, hatter, fashionable boot & shoe maker, fine groceries, photographer, dyeing establishment, dry goods store, central tea company, butter/cheese/egg supplier, fruit/wine/liquor store, music store, furniture store, bakery, butcher, fancy goods store, gent's furnishing goods store, and sporting goods store. The card serves as an advertisement and business reference, typical of late 19th-century mercantile practices.

This trade card advertises the Clinton Business Exchange, located at 89 Clinton Street, New York. The front of the card features a small rectangular block of text. The business name, address, and telephone number are listed in both English and Yiddish, possibly indicating that the Exchange catered to both English and Yiddish-speaking clientele. The back of the card is blank.