Darkie Tooth Paste - Cleaner Teeth, Cooler Taste - Full Fluoride Protection
date: label: date made
content: ca 1988
notes: label: Description
content: Inscriptions on the tube and on the cardboard box read “DARKIE / TOOTH PASTE” and “FULL / FLUORIDE / PROTECTION” and “HAWLEY & HAZEL.” The product was created in Shanghai in 1933, and apparently featured the minstrel performer, Al Jolson. It became a part of Colgate's product line when that firm acquired a 50% stake in Hawley & Hazel in 1985.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Dental Products
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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 Kiehl's Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0196.162
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0196.162
label: accession number
content: 1989.0196
objectType: label: Object Name
content: oral hygiene product
label: Object Name
content: toothpaste
label: Other Terms
content: Toothpaste, Tube of; Oral Hygiene; Personal Hygiene; Paste
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: sodium monofluorophosphate (drug material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (packaging/container color)
label: Physical Description
content: white (packaging/container color)
label: Physical Description
content: green (packaging/container color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/4 in x 1 5/8 in x 1 3/8 in; 18.415 cm x 4.1275 cm x 3.4925 cm