Mickey Mouse "My Teeth are O.K. Are Yours?" Pin
date: label: date made
content: ca 1930
label: date made
content: ca 1938
name: label: maker
content: Philadelphia Badge Co.
notes: label: Description
content: The Mickey Mouse "My Teeth are O.K. Are Yours?" pin is black, white, and red. The top of the badge states, "My Teeth are O.K. Are Yours?" while the cartoon character Mickey Mouse gestures below with his left hand.
label: Description
content: Prior to Mikey Mouse's first apperance in 1928, animator Walt Disney created numerous short films on dental health including "Tommy Tucker's Tooth" (1922) and "Clara Cleans her Teeth" (1926). Disney went on to produce more media promoting dental hygiene in the 1930s with the "Good Teeth Brigade' associated with the American Dental Association.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
label: Associated Place
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
label: Associated Place
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Mickey Mouse
label: Subject
content: Animation
label: web subject
content: Entertainment
label: Subject
content: Dental Hygiene
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1975.314637.8012
label: catalog number
content: 1975.314637.8012
label: accession number
content: 1975.314637
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pin
label: Object Name
content: button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in; 8.89 cm