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Ivory Polish Dental Trade Card with Girl

Dental trade card for Ivory Polish depicting young woman in eighteenth-century dress, holding dove. [on front] BRIGHT, CLEAN TEETH. IVORY POLISH FOR THE TEETH / PERFUMES THE BREATH. DRUGGISTS KEEP IT. [advertisements on back for IVORY POLISH FOR THE TEETH and DR. MCLANE'S CELEBRATED LIVER PILLS / PREPARED BY FLEMING BROTHERS, PITTSBURGH, PA.] [in color]

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circa late nineteenth century

Advertising -- Toothpaste -- United States

Mouth -- Care and hygiene -- United States

Women in advertising

Advertising as Topic

Dentifrices

Tooth bleaching

Trade cards

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

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