Object Details
- Block Drug Company
- Description
- Cardboard box with inscriptions that read “Sensodyne / TOOTHPASTE FOR SENSITIVE TEETH / Recommended by Dentists for Sensitive Teeth / Sensitive teeth relief / in a mint flavor” and “FROM / BLOCK DRUG COMPANY, INC. / JERSEY CITY, NJ 07302.” The Block Drug Company was established in Brooklyn in 1907 and relocated to Jersey City in 1938. It applied for a trademark on the term Sensodyne in 1960.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Estate of Paul W. Rieser, D.D.S.
- ID Number
- 1993.0107.026
- catalog number
- 1993.0107.026
- accession number
- 1993.0107
- Object Name
- toothpaste
- oral hygiene product
- Measurements
- overall: 4 in x 5 in x 2 in; 10.16 cm x 12.7 cm x 5.08 cm
- place made
- United States: New Jersey, Jersey City
- 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_1398728
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-346a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
