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Business Card, Wagner & Higgins

Medium: Printed paper
Place Made: New York, USA
Dates: ca. 1855
Dimensions: 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. (8.6 x 5.4 cm)
Collections: Decorative Arts
Museum Location: This item is not on view
Accession Number: 2001.9.4
Credit Line: Alfred T. and Caroline S. Zoebisch Fund
Image: Overall, 2001.9.4_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

Catalogue Description: Rectangular business card, oriented vertically, printed in black on white card stock: row of three examples of their products (a settee flanked by two chairs) across top, followed by text printed in varying typography: "WAGNER & HIGGINS, / Wholesale Manufacturers of / FINE ROSEWOOD, WALNUT & MAHOGANY / Tete-Tete, / Sweep Back, Gothic and other Rich / ANTIQUE AND MODERN FURNITURE, / Store, 208 Bowery, N. York, / Factory, Nos. 94, 96 & 98 Attorney-st."

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