Sentinel Dental Floss
date: label: date made
content: after 1942
name: label: maker
content: Forest City Products, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Inscriptions on this round tin read “SENTINEL / DENTAL FLOSS” and “SENTINEL / DENTAL FLOSS / PURIFIED WAX FLOSS / 10 YDS” and “FOREST CITY PRODUCTS, INC.” Forest City Products, a firm in Cleveland, Ohio, that was in business by 1942, sold dental, medical and surgical appliances. Forest City is a nickname for Cleveland.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Cleveland
title: label: Title
content: Dental Floss
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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 Betty S. and Joseph H. Dial
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0319.15
label: accession number
content: 1999.0319
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0319.15
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dental floss
label: Object Name
content: oral hygiene product
label: Other Terms
content: Oral Hygiene; Personal Hygiene Products
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (container material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 1 1/8 in; .635 cm x 2.8575 cm