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Small round tin of Mentholatum. Cover illustration of a young girl dressed as a nurse. Manufactured by the Mentholatum Company of Wichita. The company was originally founded as the Yucca Company in 1889 by Albert Alexander Hyde (1848-1935) and two partners as a manufacturer of soaps, shaving creams, and perfumes. In 1894 Hyde developed Mentholatum ointment, which was an immediate success and quickly became the company's top selling product. In 1903 Hyde organized a second office in Buffalo, New York to handle sales and distribution east of the Mississippi River. In 1906 the business was renamed The Mentholatum Company and it stopped producing any other products. In 1909-10 they built a large factory in Wichita at 1300 E. Douglas, the City's first steel-reinforced, poured-concrete structure. They built a second factory in Buffalo in 1919. After Hyde's death in 1935 the company headquarters were relocated to Buffalo.
Creator: Mentholatum Company
Date: between 1906 and 1935
Item Number: 318761
Call Number: 1969.60.24
KSHS Identifier: 1969.60.24
Business and Industry - Health care - Medical suppliers
Business and Industry - Health care - Pharmacies
Collections - Museum - Main gallery - Public Health
Date - 1900s
Date - 1910s
Date - 1920s
Date - 1930s
Objects and Artifacts - Tools & Equipment for Science & Technology - Medical & Psychological - Tin, Medicine
People - Notable Kansans - Hyde, Albert Alexander, 1848-1935
Places - Cities and towns - Wichita
Places - Counties - Sedgwick
Places - Other States - New York
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
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