Lid, box

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OBJECT TYPE: N/A
DATE: 1934–1939
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 2002.0708.002

MANUFACTURER: Mead Johnson & Co. of Canada Ltd.
MODEL: Pablum
LOCATION: Belleville, Ontario, Canada

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General Information

Serial #: 12522
Part Number: 2
Total Parts: 2
AKA: N/A
Patents: N/A
General Description: cardboard

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length: N/A
Width: N/A
Height: 2.2 cm
Thickness: N/A
Weight: N/A
Diameter: 14.4 cm
Volume: N/A

Lexicon

Group: Domestic Technology
Category: Child care
Sub-Category: N/A

Manufacturer

AKA: Mead Johnson
Country: Canada
State/Province: Ontario
City: Belleville

Context

Country: Canada
State/Province: Unknown
Period: This box probably c. l930s.
Canada: Part of a large collection of medical artifacts, archival material & trade literature transferred to CSTM in 2002 from the former History of Medicine Museum, Toronto, ON. Pablum developed by Drs. Tisdall, Drake and Brown at Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto in 1934. Originally marketed through Mead Johnson as "Mead's" prior to Drake's coinage of the term "Pablum", c. 1934. [Ref. 3]
Function: To help contain and protect box contents.
Technical: Unknown
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: "FABRICATION CANADIENNE" printed on label fragment on lid.
Missing: Contents.
Finish: Natural colour [light brown] cardboard; narrow band of pale blue & black paper label on one edge.
Decoration: N/A

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Mead Johnson & Co. of Canada Ltd., Lid, box, circa 1934–1939, Artifact no. 2002.0708, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2002.0708.002/

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