Ipana Penicillin Tooth Powder
date: label: date made
content: ca 1955
label: product expiration date
content: 1955-05
name: label: distributors
content: Bristol-Myers Company
notes: label: Description
content: Glass jar with paper label that reads in part “IPANA / PENICILLIN / tooth powder / . . . / Distributed by / BRISTOL-MYERS CO., NEW YORK, N.Y.” The Bristol-Myers Co. began selling Ipana toothpaste in 1901. The firm bought Cheplin Laboratories in 1943, broke ground for a new penicillin plant, and became a key supplier of penicillin for the armed forces during the remainder of World War 2. Ipana Penicillin tooth powder was on the market by 1951.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: location of distributor
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.312608.317
label: catalog number
content: 312608.317
label: accession number
content: 312608
objectType: label: Object Name
content: oral hygiene product
label: Object Name
content: tooth powder
label: Other Terms
content: Crystalline Potassium Penicillin G; Oral Hygiene; Patent Medicines; Drugs; Non-Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: potassium penicillin G, crystallized, 500 units per gram (drug active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 2 in; 8.89 cm x 5.08 cm