pharmaceutical tin
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact769
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV971.17.45
- Description
- pharmaceutical tin. Tall, rectangular metal tin with square pull-off lid; painted green with black text and design. The item is a bulk product stocked by a pharmacy. Up until the 1950s, pharmacists provided most prescription medications by creating compounds of bulk products that were given to customers as pills, salves, or tonics. Manufactured by "CHOICE / BOTANIC DRUGS / PRESSED / ... / PARKE, DAVIS & CO. / MANUFACTURING CHEMISTS". Original contents labels are painted red with black text. Original contents label on lid reads: "BUCHU LEAVES". Soiled paper label adhered over original contents label on front of tin reads "PREPARED CHALK" in commercially printed black text.
- Classification
- Chemical T&E
- Marks/Labels
- Manufactured by "CHOICE / BOTANIC DRUGS / PRESSED / ... / PARKE, DAVIS & CO. / MANUFACTURING CHEMISTS". Original contents label is painted red with black text. Original contents label on lid reads: "BUCHU LEAVES". Soiled paper label adhered over original contents label on front of tin reads "PREPARED CHALK" in commercially printed black text.
- Maker
- Parke, Davis & Company