Dr. Blumers Dentone Tooth Paste
name: label: maker
content: Lincoln Chemical Works
notes: label: Description
content: The inscription on the cardboard case reads “Dr. Blumers / DENTONE / A / SUPERIOR / TOOTH / PASTE / MAKES / WHITE / TEETH / ITS USE / INSURES / A CLEAN / PURE / MOUTH / LINCOLN CHEMICAL WORKS / CHICAGO.” Robert Blumer (1854-1946), who may have been an immigrant from Germany or Switzerland, established the Robert Blumer Laboratory, on Lincoln Ave., in Chicago. By 1924, now trading as the Lincoln Chemical Works, the firm was manufacturing patent medicines, ointments, pills, tonics, and such.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Beauty and Hygiene Products: Oral Care
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content: Beauty and Health
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0030.02
label: accession number
content: 1982.0030
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0030.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: oral hygiene product
label: Object Name
content: toothpaste
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 1 5/8 in x 1 1/8 in; 13.97 cm x 4.1275 cm x 2.8575 cm