Object Details
- E.W. Hoyt & Company
- Description
- Glass jar with paper label that reads in part “RUBIFOAM / CONTENTS 2 FLUID OUNCES / A DELIGHTFULLY FRAGRANT / AND / DELICIOUSLY-FLAVORED / LIQUID DENTIFRICE / FOR THE / TEETH / CONTAINS NO GRIT, NO ACID / NOR ANYTHING INJURIOUS / . . . / E. W. HOYT & CO. / PERFUMERS / LOWELL, MASS. U.S.A.” Eli Waite Hoyt (1838-1887) became proprietor of a drugstore in Lowell, Mass., in 1861, and began making and marketing a German Cologne a few years later. The firm introduced Rubifoam dentifrice in the early 1880s.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of William H. Helfand
- ID Number
- 1980.0428.09
- accession number
- 1980.0428
- catalog number
- 1980.0428.09
- Object Name
- dentifrice
- oral hygiene product
- toothpaste, liquid
- Other Terms
- Oral Hygiene; Patent Medicines; Drugs; Liquid
- Measurements
- overall: 4 1/2 in x 2 3/8 in x 1 1/8 in; 11.43 cm x 6.0325 cm x 2.8575 cm
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Lowell
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Beauty and Hygiene Products: Oral Care
- Beauty and Health
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_716467
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-47e5-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
