Stony Brook University Libraries Digital Projects and Exhibits

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  Brown's Camphorated Saponaceous Dentifrice Dental Trade Card with Three Women

  Dental trade card for Brown's Camphorated Saponaceous Dentifrice depicting three women in interior scene with bottle of BROWN'S CAMPHORATED SAPONACEOUS DENTIFRICE. [on back] BROWN'S CAMPHORATED SAPONACEOUS DENTIFRICE / FOR SALE EVERYWHERE. 25 CTS. PER BOTTLE. [with] WHAT TO DO TILL THE DOCTOR COMES / KEEP THIS HANDY, IT MAY SAVE A LIFE. [instructions to be followed in case of] SUNSTROKE, CHOKING, [and] FAINTING] [in color]
  Date: circa late nineteenth century
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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]
  Date: circa late nineteenth century
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  Jewsbury & Brown's Oriental Toothpaste Dental Trade Card

  Dental trade card for Jewsbury & Brown's Oriental Tooth Paste depicting product surrounded by flowers. Text reads: JEWSBURY & BROWN'S ORIENTAL TOOTH PASTE ENSURES WHITE & SOUND TEETH / ORIENTAL TOOTH PASTE FOR CLEANSING BEAUTIFYING AND PRESERVING THE TEETH & GUMS / PREPARED BY JEWSBURY & BROWN CHEMISTS [in gothic script] 113 MARKET STREET, MANCHESTER. [Emblem with lion and unicorn on label] [in color. back of card is blank]
  Date: circa late nineteenth century
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  Sozodont Dental Trade Card

  Dental trade card for Sozodont Tooth-wash depicting two children in pastoral scene holding large bottle of VAN BUSKIRK'S FRAGRANT SOZODONT. Text of advertisement reads: TELL IT TO OTHERS / WHEN YOU FIND A SPRING OF WATER, / PURE, ABUNDANT COOL, / YOU PROCLAIM TO ALL THE THIRSTY, / "COME, DRINK AT THE POOL." / THUS, OF ALL LIFE'S COMMON BLESSING, / ALL THAT HELP OUR KIND. / HAVE YOU FOUND A BOON? TELL OTHERS, / THAT HELP ALL MAY FIND. / IF YOU USE THAT PEERLESS TOOTH-WASH, / SOZODONT THE PURE, / TELL YOUR FRIENDS, THAT THEY MAY BUY SOME, / AND SOUND TEETH INSURE. [on back] DEAR MADAM WE TAKE THE LIBERTY OF OFFERING YOU A SAMPLE BOTTLE OF VAN BUSKIRK'S FRAGRANT SOZODONT, FOR THE TEETH. AFTER GIVING IT A TRIAL IF YOU SHOULD DESIRE TO PURCHASE A LARGE BOTTLE YOU WILL FIND IT AT ANY OF THE DRUG STORES IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD. IT IS A PREPARATION OF INTRINSIC MERIT, AND ONE THAT SHOULD BE IN THE POSSESSION OF EVERY FAMILY WHO CARE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THEIR TEETH. WE REMAIN YOURS RESPECTFULLY HALL & RUEKEL WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS. NEW YORK [in color]
  Date: circa late nineteenth century
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  Ivory Polish Dental Trade Card

  Dental trade card for Ivory Polish depicting young girl in white dress surrounded by clouds. [on front] USE DELICIOUS IVORY POLISH FOR THE TEETH / PERFUMES THE BREATH. ASK YOUR DRUGGIST FOR IT. [Advertisements on back for KIDD'S COUGH SYRUP, FLEMING'S CRUDOFORM LINIMENT, DR. G. M'LANE'S CELEBRATED LIVER PILS [sic], and J. CRAIG LONG, DRUGS, PERFUMERY & TOILET ARTICLES HOWARD LAKE, MINN.] [in color]
  Date: circa late nineteenth century
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  Aromatic Cartridges for the Breath Dental Trade Card

  Dental trade card for Aromatic Cartridges for the Breath depicting a man wearing breeches and hat with tassels holding gun with bayonet, artillery shell on ground behind him. [on front] AROMATIC CARTRIDGES FOR THE BREATH. [on back] "PERFECTION." THE AROMATIC CARTRIDGE AN EFFICIENT AND DELICIOUS BREATH PURIFIER. THE LONG CONTINUED USE OF THIS BREATH PURIFIER THROUGHOUT EUROPE IS A SUFFICIENT GUARANTEE OF ITS UNDOUBTED MERIT. IT IS ELEGANT IN APPEARANCE, PLEASANT TO THE TASTE AND PERFECTLY HEALTHFUL. NO LADY'S OR GENTLEMAN'S TOILET IS COMPLETE WITHOUT IT. MANUFACTURED EXCLUSIVELY BY THOMAS S. FURNISS & CO. DETROIT, MICH. [in color]
  Date: circa late nineteenth century
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  Brown's Camphorated Saponaceous Dentifrice Trade Card with Man and Woman

  Dental trade card for Brown's Camphorated Saponaceous Dentifrice depicting man leaning toward woman in short skirt and striped stockings. Text reads: EVERY BODY SHOULD PRESERVE HER TEETH BY USING, BROWN'S CAMPHORATED SAPONACEOUS DENTIFRICE 25 CENTS A BOTTLE. [in color. back of card is blank]
  Date: circa late nineteenth century