Dr. I.W. Lyon's Perfect Tooth Powder
name: label: maker
content: I. W. Lyon's and Sons
notes: label: Description
content: Tin container with inscriptions that read in part “DR. I. W. LYON’S / PERFECT / TOOTH POWDER / Cleansing & Beaut… / THE TEETH / (TRADE MARK) / AND PURIFYING THE BREATH / PRICE 25 CENTS” and “Manufactured by I. W. Lyon & Sons / 520 West 27th St., New York, U.S.A.” Israel Whitney Lyon studied dentistry in New York, joined the gold rush to California, and returned east after the Civil War. He was selling I. W. Lyons’ Tooth Tablets by 1866, and I. W. Lyons’ Tooth Powder by 1874. He obtained a patent (#135,924) for “dentists’ stools” in 1873, and another (#445,067) for a “box for tooth powder” in 1891. After Dr. Lyon’s death in 1907, the New York Times hailed him as “A Pioneer of ’49, He Rose from Peddler to Millionaire.” His sons continued the business.
label: Description
content: Ref: “DR. I. W. LYON DEAD,” New York Times (Feb. 23, 1907), p. 9.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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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.293320.0981
label: catalog number
content: 293320.0981
label: accession number
content: 293320
objectType: label: Object Name
content: oral hygiene product
label: Object Name
content: tooth powder
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in x 1 5/8 in; 9.525 cm x 4.1275 cm