Rubifoam for the Teeth, Free Sample Bottle - Deliciously Flavored
name: label: maker
content: E. W. Hoyt & Company
notes: label: Description
content: Glass jar with paper label that reads in part “FREE SAMPLE BOTTLE OF / RUBIFOAM / ALCOHOL 45 PER CENT / FOR THE TEETH / . . . / Prepared by E. W. HOYT & CO. / PROPRIETORS OF / HOYT’S GERMAN COLOGNE / LOWELL, MASS.” Eli W. Hoyt (1838-1887) owned a drugstore in Lowell, Mass., and began manufacturing Hoyt’s German Cologne in 1870. The firm introduced Rubifoam, a liquid dentifrice, to market in 1887.
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.293320.0990
label: catalog number
content: 293320.0990
label: accession number
content: 293320
objectType: label: Object Name
content: oral hygiene product
label: Object Name
content: tooth cleanser
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/8 in x 1 3/8 in x 1/2 in; 6.0325 cm x 3.4925 cm x 1.27 cm