Optus Chalk and Orris
name: label: maker
content: Philadelphia Wholesale Drug Company
notes: label: Description
content: Metal container with inscriptions that read “1 Lb. / OPTUS / CHALK AND ORRIS / Distributed by / PHILADELPHIA WHOLESALE DRUG COMPANY / Philadelphia, Pa.” The image represents the 7-story Philadelphia Wholesale Drug Company building, a facility erected in 1927. The Philadelphia Wholesale Drug Company, an association of retail pharmacists, was reorganized in 1898, and incorporated in 1909.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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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 Robert Grodanz, David's Pharmacy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0138.099
label: accession number
content: 2002.0138
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0138.099
objectType: label: Object Name
content: oral hygiene product
label: Object Name
content: tooth powder
label: Other Terms
content: Pharmaceutical; Drugs
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: orris (iris) (product material)
label: Physical Description
content: chaulk (product material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 3/4 in x 3 1/4 in; 19.685 cm x 8.255 cm