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Flour Sack
- Material
- FABRIC-COTTON;
- Description
- Off white cotton flour sack. "Purity Flour Mills" across top of blue circe, "Purity Flour" in large red letters across the middle. 98 lb. sack.
- Manufacturer
- Purity Flour Mills
- Category
- TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- Sub-Category
- MERCHANDISING TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT
- Start Date
- 1905
- End Date
- 1981
- Period or Date Notes
- Likely dates to 1950s as it is branded with Purity Flour Mills only, not the Western Canada Flour Mills. Source: http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/westerncanadaflourmills.shtml, accessed January 2019
- Description
- Off white cotton flour sack. "Purity Flour Mills" across top of blue circe, "Purity Flour" in large red letters across the middle. 98 lb. sack.
- History Of Use
- Purity Flour was first milled during Canada’s “wheat boom” in 1905 by the Western Canada Flour Mills Company, who became the largest flour milling company in Canada. Source: https://digex.lib.uoguelph.ca/exhibits/show/tried-tested-true/advertising-cookbooks/purity-flour-book, accessed Jan 2019
- Material
- FABRIC-COTTON;
- Width
- 51
- Length
- 85
- Units Of Measurement
- Centimeters
- Accession No.
- 1997.15.1
- Type of Record
- Museum Artifact
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