medicinal box
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact8915
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV985.1354.1
- Description
- Small, rectangular cardboard box, with trianglar flap closure. The box contains loose pills. The box is labelled on all six sides, commerically printed in pink, white, and black.
- Classification
- Medical & Psychological T&E
- Marks/Labels
- "WARTIME PACKAGE ADOPTED JAN 1943" printed in black on pink along top of front label. "No. 19327 / Proprietary or Patent Medicine Act / DR WILLIAMS' / PINK PILLS / A TONIC FOR THE BLOOD AND NERVES / WITH IRON AND / VITAMIN B1 / CONTENTS 50 PILLS" printed in pink and black text on circular, discoloured white background. "G.T. FULFORD CO., LIMITED, BROCKVILLE, ONT." printed in black on pinnk along the bottom. Back label features the same information as the front, printed in French. "S H [ill.]" handwritten in pencil on back label. Left and right side labels provide directions for use as well as inredients of the pills, printed in French and English. "OPEN / HERE" and "OUVREZ / ICI" printed in white on either side of a white arrow on top, triangular flap of box. "DIRECTION BOOKLET INSIDE / THIS END" and "MODE D'EMPLOI A / L'INTERIEUR DE CE BOUT CI" printed in black on bottom label.
- Measurements
- 2.4 cm height x 5 cm width x 6.9 cm length
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- Ontario
- Site/City Made
- Brockville