A Business Card from Brooklyn

Today, just a business card from the Brooklyn Enumeration District.

A hair larger than today's standard card, it measures 4.25" x 2.5". It has a small tack hole in one corner, making me think that it was stuck on a board or wall as a reminder, or perhaps as advertising.

The dentist appears to be Dr. George E. Travis, who registered with the Dental Society of the State of New York in July 1879.

He was still at that address in the 1890 Beecher's Dental Directory. Looks like he moved his practice a couple blocks, to 696 Grand Street, by 1899, according to Trow's Business Directory.

An advertisement run in a 1914 newspaper by a Dr. George E. Travis touted

Painless Dentistry

Gold Crown and Bridge Work a Specialty

Lady in Attendance

[ http://www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn96083504/1914-05-20/ed-1/seq-8.pdf ]
Not sure if this ad was run by the same gent who provided the business card, it doesn't have a street address and I'm not familiar with Brooklyn.