Dental Floss
date: label: date made
content: after 1963
name: label: maker
content: John O. Butler Company
notes: label: Description
content: Two cylinders of dental floss in a cardboard box. The inscription on one side of the box reads “Butler / RIGHT KIND / UnWaxed Dental Floss / For Personal Oral Hygiene / John O. Butler Co. / Chicago, Ill. 60611 / Printed in U.S.A. Made in U.S.A.” That on another side adds “Conforming to the Optimum Characteristics / of Dental Floss for Personal Oral Hygiene / as specified by Dr. C. C. Bass / For Personal Oral Hygiene.”
label: Description
content: John O. Butler (1873-1973) was a Chicago dentist who, in 1923, established the John O. Butler Company, a firm that manufactured sundry oral-care products. Charles C. Bass (1875-1975) was a physician on the faculty of the Tulane University Medical School. Zip codes were introduced on July 1, 1963.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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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 the Estate of Paul W. Rieser, D.D.S.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0107.199
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0107.199
label: accession number
content: 1993.0107
objectType: label: Object Name
content: oral hygiene product
label: Object Name
content: dental floss
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/8 in x 2 3/4 in x 1 3/8 in; 5.3975 cm x 6.985 cm x 3.4925 cm