The first Turkish bath in Manhattan, New York:
letterhead in use some 15 years after opening
Letterhead of the Dr M L Holbrook's Hygienic Hotel and Turkish Bath Institute at 13 & 15 Laight Street, Manhattan, New York.
The bath was originally opened in 1865 by the Drs Miller, Wood & Co. It was the first in Manhattan, following the success of Dr Charles Shepard's Turkish baths in Brooklyn, which opened a couple of years earlier. The latter were the first Victorian Turkish baths in the USA.
Diane DeBlois and Robert Harris for the photocopy of the letterheading
This page enlarges an image or adds to the information found below:
The first Turkish baths in the USA. Part 2: Manhattan
Victorian Turkish Baths: their origin, development, and gradual decline
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