Tooth Brush Innovation

This is an advertising poster from a company that made and marketed toothbrushes beginning in the late 1800s. It was the  Florence Brush Company, which had started with buttons and daguerrotype cases, then hairbrushes and finally a newly designed toothbrush from 1885. "By 1915, this toothbrush was the company's best-selling product and in 1924, the company changed its name to the Pro-phy-lac-tic Brush Company."


Historic Northampton, a local museum, has mounted a small but fascinating exhibition on the company, which was located in the nearby town of Florence.  It ends this Sunday (8/16)--we just learned of it last week.