baby powder tin

Name/Title

baby powder tin

Entry/Object ID

1982.002.018

Description

Rectangular Baby Powder tin, metal with painted label and twist top with perforated shaker for dispensing the powder. Background cream colour with blue lettering 'Johnson's BABY Powder 4 oz. Active ingredient talc. Johnson & Johnson Limited Montreal' Decorated with two bands of yellow cross-hatched with orange at top and base of tin. Writing on side of tin: "Johnson's Baby Powder, made of extremely fine quality buffered talc. Very mildly perfumed. It contains no stearate of zinc or orris root. After Baby's bath dust on freely, being sure to cover every skin fold. It relieves and helps prevent chafing, diaper rash and urine scald. When diaper is changed after bathing the diaper area dust on this soothing powder. Use it too, on the diaper itself to soften any roughness in Hot Weather use freely and relieve prickly heat.

Acquisition

Source (if not Accessioned)

Wilson, Francis

Notes

Accession Date: 22-Jun-82 Mode of Acquisition: gift

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Tin

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Can

Nomenclature Class

Containers

Nomenclature Category

Category 07: Distribution & Transportation Objects

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

baby powder tin

Created By

Tank, Rhonda

Create Date

December 8, 1995

Update Date

December 27, 2023