Rubifoam Liquid Dentifrice for the Teeth
name: label: maker
content: E.W. Hoyt & Company
notes: label: Description
content: Glass jar with paper label that reads in part “RUBIFOAM / CONTENTS 2 FLUID OUNCES / A DELIGHTFULLY FRAGRANT / AND / DELICIOUSLY-FLAVORED / LIQUID DENTIFRICE / FOR THE / TEETH / CONTAINS NO GRIT, NO ACID / NOR ANYTHING INJURIOUS / . . . / E. W. HOYT & CO. / PERFUMERS / LOWELL, MASS. U.S.A.” Eli Waite Hoyt (1838-1887) became proprietor of a drugstore in Lowell, Mass., in 1861, and began making and marketing a German Cologne a few years later. The firm introduced Rubifoam dentifrice in the early 1880s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Lowell
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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 William H. Helfand
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0428.09
label: accession number
content: 1980.0428
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0428.09
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dentifrice
label: Object Name
content: oral hygiene product
label: Object Name
content: toothpaste, liquid
label: Other Terms
content: Oral Hygiene; Patent Medicines; Drugs; Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 2 3/8 in x 1 1/8 in; 11.43 cm x 6.0325 cm x 2.8575 cm