This full page advertisement is one of several in a local street directory which was 'published for presentation to the friends and patrons of his Turkish, Russian and Electric Baths…by A L Wood, MD, Proprietor.' In addition to these ads, each left hand page has header and footer ads for the baths and, in the left land margin, a quotation in praise of Turkish baths. The directory does not appear in the catalogues of the Library of Congress, New York City Library, Brooklyn Public Library, or the British Library.

The baths were opened on 17 April 1880 and became a competitive alternative to the first Victorian Turkish Bath to open in the United States, that run by Dr Shepard at 63 Columbia Street, Brooklyn.

Although the Clinton Street baths were owned by the Brooklyn Turkish Bath Company, Dr Wood was named as President. Dr Wood, with Dr Eli P Miller, had opened the first Turkish bath in Manhattan in 1865.