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Listerated Gum Dental Trade Card

Dental trade card for Listerated Gum depicting product with label. advertisement text reads: TEN DELICIOUS, SNOW WHITE NUGGETS OF PUREST GUM. SOLD EVERYWHERE / TAKE NO OTHER / CLEANS TEETH, SWEETENS BREATH, PURIFIES MOUTH. ANTISEPTIC / WRAPPED AIR-TIGHT. [on product label] LISTERATED GUM CORPORATION, NEW YORK, U.S.A. A SCIENTIFICALLY COMPOUNDED CHEWING GUM OF HIGHEST QUALITY. [Trademark: number "5" in red triangle. Patent number: 850150.] [picture of girl chewing LISTERATED GUM on back of card: "THE GUM I CHEWS"] [in color]

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circa late nineteenth century

Advertising -- Chewing gum -- United States

Mouth -- Care and hygiene -- United States

Advertising as Topic

Chewing Gum

Trade cards

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From the Paul Baer Collection, Stony Brook University School of Dental Medicine

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