Small tin can for spice storage. Can is green with black and red lettering on all sides with trade mark and brand image on front.
tin cans
tin (metal)
Can, Food-storage
"One of Durkee's / Famous Foods / DURKEE's / 'Calls the appetite' / TURMERIC (printed)
"Trade / Mark / Warranted Stricktly Pure / E.R. Durkee / Reg. U.S. / Pat. Off." (printed)
"2 oz. net weight" (printed)
"DURKEE FAMOUS FOODS / ELMHURST, N.Y. / MANUFACTURER" (printed)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
2003.20.1
Durkee Famous Foods, Inc.
3.25 x 2 2/16 x 1 2/16 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1577
New York state (United States)
Elmhurst (Queens, New York City, New York state) [neighborhood]
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