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Broadside - HUESTIS & LEVY Playing Cards, 177 & 179 Grand Street New York. Outstanding illustration of the factory/store front. Printed advertisement from a disbound volume: "NewYork Business Directory" , from 1854 0r 1855. Approximately 8"x10.5". John J. Levy was a partner of Huestis for a brief time. In 1854 Lewis I. Cohen retired from business and left the card manufactory in the hands of his son, Solomon L. Cohen, and his nephew, John M. Lawrence who formed a partnership and traded under the name "Lawrence and Cohen". The two boys continued their brand with the Stars and Eagle, and maintained their share of the market and expanded. On December 5th, 1871, Lawrence and Cohen turned the business into a stock company together with three new partners. The new names in the venture were Samuel Hart and Isaac Levy of "Samuel Hart & Co.", Philadelphia, and John J. Levy, a card maker from New York. Together, these men would form the New York Consolidated Card Company.

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Arc.MS.56, Box 20, Folder 5