Phenix Herb Can
date: label: date made
content: after 1901
name: label: maker
content: Whitall Tatum Company
notes: label: Description
content: Dark olive green-japanned and gilt-banded, vertical rectangular, lidded container with brass label frame and curved pull screwed on at bottom front; "116" is painted in gold inside frame. One-piece, plain-edged, square lid has hinge along at back. Two-piece box has a raised bottom; all four top edges are folded with a wire bead below. Tinned interior. Underside has metallic gold finish and is stamped incuse "PHENIX / HERB CAN / WHITALL TA[TUM] COMPANY / NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA BOSTON / CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO" in sans serif letters.
label: Description
content: For apothecary use. Maker is Whitall Tatum Company in Millville, NJ; in business, 1806-1938, but operated under this name from 1901 onwards. Whitall Tatum was a glass manufacturer best known for their prescription glassware - bottles, jars and vials made for druggists, chemists and perfumers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Millville
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Kenneth E. Jewett
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.251349.0012
label: catalog number
content: 251349.0012
label: accession number
content: 251349
objectType: label: Object Name
content: container, crude drug
label: Object Name
content: can, herb
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (exterior decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (exterior decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (handle; screws material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 15/16 in x 5 1/16 in x 5 3/4 in; 17.62125 cm x 12.85875 cm x 14.605 cm