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Metadata
Object ID # |
1995.035.004 |
Object Name |
Pillbox |
Title |
Parker & Co. Pillbox |
Lexicon category |
3: Personal Artifacts |
Year Range from |
1950 |
Year Range to |
1954 |
Made |
Unknown |
Place of Origin |
Owen Sound, Grey County |
Description |
PARKER & CO. cardboard pillbox. A blue and white rectangular cardboard box, with a paper-hinged lid. The top of the lid has white printing: "The Rexall Store / Parker & Co. / Prescription Specialists / Owen Sound / Directions Inside". The interior has a Parker & Co. label that has "1856" on it as a reminder of the year of establishment for the company. The label is also typescript. The prescription filled was No. 28610 from Dr. Rutherford. "Take one after meals". The prescription was for Joshua Tackaberry. |
Provenance |
The prescription was made out to Joshua Tackaberry (his full name was Willoughby Joshua Tackaberry). He died in 1954. The prescription was filled by the Parker & Co. drugstore of Owen Sound, Grey County. Belonged to Captain and Mrs. Richard E. Tackaberry, of Owen Sound. Passed to their daughter, Elizabeth (Libby) Rea (neé Tackaberry). |
Collection |
Pharmaceutical Equipment Collection |
Material |
Cardboard/Ink/Glue |
Dimensions |
H-3 W-7.2 L-4.6 cm |
Found |
Owen Sound, Grey County |
People |
Tackaberry, Richard E. Rutherford, Dr. A. B. |
Subjects |
Drugstores Owen Sound Business Owen Sound Businesses Containers Boxes Medicine Pharmacists |
Search Terms |
Parker & Co. Owen Sound Businesses |
Function |
A container given to a drugstore customer with a quantity of pills in it. The box helps to identify the origin of the prescription and who it is prescribed to. This example was used by an Owen Sound, Grey County drugstore in the early 1950s. PARKER & CO. This Owen Sound drug store business was first known as Parker & Cattle and was established in the 1850s. It was one of the first drugstore chains in Canada West. It continued as Parker & Co. into the 20th-century and eventually became "Parker Pharmacy". The Parker name ceased in 2007 or 2008? when Parker Pharmacy closed down. |