Toothbrush
date: label: date made
content: c. 1925
notes: label: Description
content: “Upon going East on a vacation trip, I looked up a toothbrush factory in Brooklyn, and then and there the foreman and I made up a sample brush to my design. This product proved satisfactory and is in use today.” “In my own product, the back of the brush is curved and the bristles are all the same length.” So wrote C. Edmund Kells, Jr., in The Dentist’s Own Book (St. Louis, 1925), p. 320. The inscriptions on the handle of this example read “C. EDMUND KELLS / OWN PATTERN / NEW ORLEANS” and “SILVER WIRE” and “FRANCE.”
label: Description
content: Charles Edmund Kells (1856-1928) was a dentist in New Orleans who obtained several patents and did pioneering work with dental x-rays.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France
topic: label: collection
content: Dr. C. Edmund Kells Collection
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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 Mrs. J. O. Pierson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-10650
label: catalog number
content: M-10650
label: accession number
content: 254077
objectType: label: Object Name
content: oral hygiene product
label: Object Name
content: toothbrush
label: Other Terms
content: Toothbrush; Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 6 1/2 in x 1/2 in; 1.5875 cm x 16.51 cm x 1.27 cm