Purita Tooth Powder
date: label: date made
content: ca 1898-1900
label: date made
content: ca 1887-1900
name: label: retailer
content: Hall & Lyon Co.
label: maker
content: Dennis Manufacturing Company Limited
notes: label: Description
content: Inscriptions on this tin read “PURITA / PREPARED BY THE / DENNIS M’f’g CO Limited / Price 25 Cents / NEW YORK” and “A DELICATE / PREPARATION / FOR CLEANSING, / PRESERVING, / and BEAUTIFYING / THE TEETH / REMOVING TARTAR / HARDENING THE / GUMS, AND PURIFY / ING THE BREATH.” The trademark is a lion with banner reading “NON EST VIVERE, SED VALERE VITA.” Purita was advertised in the New York Times in 1887.
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: 1982.0052.03
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0052.03
label: accession number
content: 1982.0052
objectType: label: Object Name
content: oral hygiene product
label: Object Name
content: tooth powder
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 3 in x 1 7/8 in; 2.54 cm x 7.62 cm x 4.7625 cm