Dr. I.W. Lyon's Tooth Tablets
name: label: maker
content: Lyon, I. W.
notes: label: Description
content: Tin container with inscriptions that read DR. I. W. LYON’S / TOOTH TABLETS / FOR CLEANSING & BEAUTIFYING / THE TEETH / AND PURIFYING THE BREATH / Trade Mark / Price 50 Cts.” 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.
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.293320.0988
label: catalog number
content: 293320.0988
label: accession number
content: 293320
objectType: label: Object Name
content: oral hygiene product
label: Object Name
content: tooth tablets
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 3 3/8 in x 2 1/8 in; 2.54 cm x 8.5725 cm x 5.3975 cm