"A Box of Pills, Please" Postcard
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- Fonds / Collection
- Mattson
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Date
- 1909 - 1911
- Accession Number
- 2016.4
- Scope and Content
- Colourized postcard depicting a young boy in a green suit and red cap talking to a man behind a pharmacy counter
- Fonds / Collection
- Mattson
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Fonds Number
- 120-03
- Item Number
- 17
- Accession Number
- 2016.4
- Date
- 1909 - 1911
- Physical Description
- handbound book of postcards, 7" x 4.5"
- Physical Condition
- good
- History / Biographical
- Collected and catalogued by Marion Thompson
- Given to Roy Mattson by Jim Ada
- 43 postcards originally mounted in a handmade booklet;
- Name Access
- Roy Mattson
- Jim Ada
- Pastobak family
- Subject Access
- Postcard
- Scope and Content
- Colourized postcard depicting a young boy in a green suit and red cap talking to a man behind a pharmacy counter
- written on postcard: "A box of pills, please" "Antibilious" "No, Uncle is."
- Photo only copyright 1908, by Bamforth & Co.
- Post Card with a place for the stamp, Printed in Britain, no postmark
- Left side - From Caroline Wetelainen
- Right side - Mr. Eddie Bastobak, Sylvan Lake, Alta
- Notes
- The Pastobak family were long time Kuusamo area residents