Object Details
- Forest City Products, Inc.
- Description
- Inscriptions on this round tin read “SENTINEL / DENTAL FLOSS” and “SENTINEL / DENTAL FLOSS / PURIFIED WAX FLOSS / 10 YDS” and “FOREST CITY PRODUCTS, INC.” Forest City Products, a firm in Cleveland, Ohio, that was in business by 1942, sold dental, medical and surgical appliances. Forest City is a nickname for Cleveland.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Betty S. and Joseph H. Dial
- after 1942
- ID Number
- 1999.0319.15
- accession number
- 1999.0319
- catalog number
- 1999.0319.15
- Object Name
- dental floss
- oral hygiene product
- Other Terms
- Oral Hygiene; Personal Hygiene Products
- Physical Description
- metal (container material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1/4 in x 1 1/8 in; .635 cm x 2.8575 cm
- place made
- United States: Ohio, Cleveland
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Beauty and Hygiene Products: Oral Care
- Beauty and Health
- Title
- Dental Floss
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1215692
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-ad2c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
