Dr. Ralph and Mrs. Olga Crawford Canadian Dental Collection
Category
Archival
Dental
Classification
Archival, Advertisements
Dental
Accession Number
010020070
Description
Rectangular advertising card made of beige cardstock; front of card features white border; illustration of a young girl with rosy cheeks, blue eyes, blond curly hair, wearing a white dress; she rests her head on her hands on a pink chair with two yellow flowers on it; name of manufacturer, products…
Rectangular advertising card made of beige cardstock; front of card features white border; illustration of a young girl with rosy cheeks, blue eyes, blond curly hair, wearing a white dress; she rests her head on her hands on a pink chair with two yellow flowers on it; name of manufacturer, products, prices with brown ink; back of card has calendar for 1891, illustration of a house, with smoking chimney and surrounded by trees, on a hill by a river with tall plants, information on products, manufacturer's information, prices, pharmacist's information printed with brown ink
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Transfer from the Dental Canada Fund; previously housed in the Dentistry Canada Museum (Ottawa)
Printed on front: "PERFUMED WITH // HOYT'S GERMAN // COLOGNE // The // MOST FRAGRANT AND LASTING // OF ALL PERFUMES. // PRICE TRIAL SIZE 25 CTS // MEDIUM SIZE 50 CTS // LARGE BOTTLES $1.00 // USE // RUBIFOAM // FOR THE TEETH. DELICIOUSLY FLAVORED. // PRICE 25 CTS A BOTTLE."; written on back: "HOYT'S // GERMAN COLOGNE // HAS BEEN KNOWN FOR OVER TWENTY // YEARS AS THE MOST FRAGRANT AND LASTING // OF ALL PERFUMES. DO NOT CONFOUND IT WITH THE // NUMEROUS TRASHY PERFUMES THAT USURP ITS NAME, // OR STYLES OF BOTTLE. REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. TRIAL SIZE 25 c MEDIUM SIZE 50 c LARGE BOTTLES $1.00. // Put up by E.W. HOYT & CO. LOWELL, MASS. U.S.A. Manufacturers of // RUBIFOAM FOR THE TEETH. // For sale by E.C. Lowe, Under Whitney House, // Westboro, Mass., // DEALER IN // DRUGS AND FANCY GOODS."
Permanent Location
Storage Room 2005
2005-2-5 Box 20
Dimension Notes
Length 14.1 cm x Width 8.6 cm x Depth 0.1 cm
Condition Remarks
Worn at edges; bent at top left corner
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Internet
JPG
Reference Comments
"Hoyt's German Cologne & Rubifoam" website
CD #9
Research Facts
Dr Ralph and Mrs Olga Crawford donated their extensive Canadian dental collection to the DCF to create the museum in 1997; further donations were received while Dr Crawford was Curator Emeritus at the Dental Canada Museum until its closure in 2008; Rubifoam toothpaste was introduced in 1887 and was named for its red bright colour; this card would have been soaked in E.W. Hoyt's original product, their German cologne; the company first started advertising with sample bottles, but as it grew too expensive they began producing advertising cards soaked in the perfume; the cards were made with an extra-porous type of paper in order to soak up the cologne