Dr. Lyon's Tooth Powder
name: label: maker
content: R. L. Watkins Company
notes: label: Description
content: Tin container with inscriptions that read in part “DR. LYON’S / TOOTH POWDER / TRADE MARK” and “The R. L. Watkins Company / New York, N.Y. / successors to I. W. Lyon & Sons, Inc. / ESTABLISHED 1866 BY / I. W. Lyon, D.D.S.” Israel Whitney Lyon studied dentistry in New York, joined the gold rush to California, and returned east after the Civil War. He was selling I. W. Lyons’ Tooth Tablets by 1866, and I. W. Lyons’ Tooth Powder by 1874. After Dr. Lyon’s death in 1907, his sons continued the business.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Doris H. Bratten (Mrs. Roscoe C. Bratten, D.D.S.)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.312608.183
label: catalog number
content: 312608.183
label: accession number
content: 312608
objectType: label: Object Name
content: oral hygiene product
label: Object Name
content: tooth powder
label: Other Terms
content: Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 7/8 in x 1 5/8 in; 9.8425 cm x 4.1275 cm