Dental Floss
name: label: maker
content: Johnson and Johnson
notes: label: Description
content: Dental floss in a glass cylinder with metal cap, and a paper label that reads “NEW ERA / DENTAL FLOSS / Johnson & Johnson / NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., CHICAGO, ILL. / MADE IN U.S.A.” The firm, incorporated in 1887, promoted the use of antiseptic medical and surgical procedures and products. The product was on the market by 1906, with advertisements describing it as “a new kind of floss, a flat thread with fine corrugated surface; made in a new form; put up in a new and original style package one half the size of other kinds; each and every feature being an improvement in a material that has known little change or progress in years.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, New Brunswick
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0165.812
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0165.812
label: accession number
content: 2012.0165
objectType: label: Object Name
content: oral hygiene product
label: Object Name
content: dental floss
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 3/4 in x 3/4 in; 5.715 cm x 1.905 cm x 1.905 cm