A typical chew stick. This one is from the plant Glycyrrhiza glabra (licorice)
Entrance to Toothbrush Exhibition
Detail: Woman-shaped Toothbrush.
Woman-Shaped Toothbrush: This toothbrush was found by Ron Kelley, in 1985, when he moved into an apartment at 520 E. 11th. St. NYC. Several years later Ron left the city for Southern Vermont.
During the spring of 1990, his wife discovered the toothbrush lolling about on his desk. It surprised her. A lively conversation ensued.
Since that conversation, this toothbrush was removed from Ron’s desk and brought down to the tool section in their basement where it languished for 24 years until it was resurrected for this exhibit.
Woman-Shaped Toothbrush exhibit label.
Addendum attached by unknown museum visitor to woman shaped toothbrush exhibit.
“Red Stocking” Toothbrush: The “leg” is hollow and stores a small tube of bubble gum-flavored toothpaste for the traveling adventurer. From the Museum’s permanent collection.
“Red Stocking” Toothbrush: The “leg” is hollow and stores a small tube of bubble gum-flavored toothpaste for the traveling adventurer. From the Museum’s permanent collection.
Unidentified woman in post-war France photographed by an American soldier she later married and accompanied to Gardener, New Jersey. Found with letters and a box of photos in a recycling center in upstate New York.
Unidentified woman in post-war France photographed by an American soldier she later married and accompanied to Gardener, New Jersey. Found with letters and a box of photos in a recycling center in upstate New York.
Wallace Carothers, a brilliant chemist at DuPont, inventor of Nylon. Tragically, Carothers saw himself and his life’s work at DuPont as a failure. Haunted by depression, he committed suicide by swallowing a solution laced with cyanide in 1937, just two years after his discovery of nylon.
Contemporary Prison toothbrush courtesy David Lamoso
Prophylactic toothbrushes in box
Prophylactic Toothbrush packaging
Burmaxo and Nipon bone toothbrushes with animal-hair bristles, manufactured shortly before the switch to nylon; Boy Scout camping toothbrush and matching 50 Years of Service medallion; Rare Doctor Buckley’s Massage Brush for Tooth and Gums
Matching Animal-Top Toothbrushes: Childhood toothbrushes once belonging to the Kassay Sisters, singing triplets from Ohio.
Matching Animal-Top Toothbrushes: Childhood toothbrushes once belonging to the Kassay Sisters, singing triplets from Ohio.
Toothbrush Memorabilia:
Letter and tooth cream courtesy Brooke Stapletre
Toothpaste:St. 37, Ipana with Hexa Flouride and VOTE the adult toothpaste in a plastic tube (an improvement over the lead containers which had been common up until this time)
American Brushes and Paste from Past Decades: Racist packaging, Classic Colgate, Dr. West’s, Dr. Hardy’s and Dr. Walker’s
High End Toothbrushes: Japanese Bichotan toothbrush , the extraordinary Italian Pierrot 243, Toothbrushing photo .
Travel toothbrushes of all kinds.On loan from the G. Miller Toothbrush and Dental Accessory Archive in Montpelier, Vermont
A typical chew stick. This one is from the plant Glycyrrhiza glabra (licorice).
The entrance to the Toothbrush exhibition.
sterling silver baby’s toothbrush with replaceable head.
sterling silver baby’s toothbrush with replaceable head.
The entrance to the Toothbrush exhibition.
Travel toothbrushes of all kinds.On loan from the G. Miller Toothbrush and Dental Accessory Archive in Montpelier, Vermont
High End Toothbrushes: Japanese Bichotan toothbrush , the extraordinary Italian Pierrot 243, Toothbrushing photo .
American Brushes and Paste from Past Decades: Racist packaging, Classic Colgate, Dr. West’s, Dr. Hardy’s and Dr. Walker’s
Toothpaste:St. 37, Ipana with Hexa Flouride and VOTE the adult toothpaste in a plastic tube (an improvement over the lead containers which had been common up until this time)
Toothbrush Memorabilia:
Letter and tooth cream courtesy Brooke Stapletre
Matching Animal-Top Toothbrushes: Childhood toothbrushes once belonging to the Kassay Sisters, singing triplets from Ohio.
Matching Animal-Top Toothbrushes: Childhood toothbrushes once belonging to the Kassay Sisters, singing triplets from Ohio.
Burmaxo and Nipon bone toothbrushes with animal-hair bristles, manufactured shortly before the switch to nylon; Boy Scout camping toothbrush and matching 50 Years of Service medallion; Rare Doctor Buckley’s Massage Brush for Tooth and Gums
Prophylactic Toothbrush packaging
Prophylactic toothbrushes in box
Contemporary Prison toothbrush courtesy David Lamoso
Wallace Carothers, a brilliant chemist at DuPont, inventor of Nylon. Tragically, Carothers saw himself and his life’s work at DuPont as a failure. Haunted by depression, he committed suicide by swallowing a solution laced with cyanide in 1937, just two years after his discovery of nylon.
Unidentified woman in post-war France photographed by an American soldier she later married and accompanied to Gardener, New Jersey. Found with letters and a box of photos in a recycling center in upstate New York.
Unidentified woman in post-war France photographed by an American soldier she later married and accompanied to Gardener, New Jersey. Found with letters and a box of photos in a recycling center in upstate New York.
“Red Stocking” Toothbrush: The “leg” is hollow and stores a small tube of bubble gum-flavored toothpaste for the traveling adventurer. From the Museum’s permanent collection.
“Red Stocking” Toothbrush: The “leg” is hollow and stores a small tube of bubble gum-flavored toothpaste for the traveling adventurer. From the Museum’s permanent collection.
Detail: the “Red Stocking” toothbrush.
Addendum attached by unknown museum visitor to woman shaped toothbrush exhibit.
Woman-Shaped Toothbrush exhibit label.
Woman-Shaped Toothbrush: This toothbrush was found by Ron Kelley, in 1985, when he moved into an apartment at 520 E. 11th. St. NYC. Several years later Ron left the city for Southern Vermont.
During the spring of 1990, his wife discovered the toothbrush lolling about on his desk. It surprised her. A lively conversation ensued.
Since that conversation, this toothbrush was removed from Ron’s desk and brought down to the tool section in their basement where it languished for 24 years until it was resurrected for this exhibit.
Detail: Woman-shaped Toothbrush.
A typical chew stick. This one is from the plant Glycyrrhiza glabra (licorice)
Entrance to Toothbrush Exhibition
A typical contemporary miswak from Pakistan
American brushes and paste : Racist packaging, Classic Colgate, Dr. West’s, Dr. Hardy’s and Dr. Walker’s
St. 37, Ipana with Hexa Flouride and VOTE the adult toothpaste in a plastic tube; hello kitty, mr. peanut and rabbit toothbrushes
travel toothbrushes display
entryway to the toothbrush exhibit
prison toothbrush shiv diorama
toothbrush art by david powell
cleanliness display
toothbrush crown
Early 19th century bone toothbrushes dug out of a garbage dump in Scotland.