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Flour Sack
- Material
- FABRIC-COTTON;
- Description
- Off-white cloth sack. Printed on the front in blue and green text: "Purity Flour Mills Limited / Vitamin B / Whole Wheat Flour". Front also features a yellow illustration of wheat.
- Manufacturer Notes
- Purity Flour Mills Limited
- Category
- TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- Sub-Category
- MERCHANDISING TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT
- Place Of Manufacture
- Canada: Calgary, Alberta
- Description
- Off-white cloth sack. Printed on the front in blue and green text: "Purity Flour Mills Limited / Vitamin B / Whole Wheat Flour". Front also features a yellow illustration of wheat.
- History Of Use
- Cloth bags such as this one contained products commonly used in households, and often the bags would be recycled for household textiles and clothing. 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;
- Accession No.
- 1991.90.1 a
- Type of Record
- Museum Artifact
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