Smithies Prophylactics
date: label: date made
content: ca 1930s-1950s
name: label: maker
content: Allied Latex Corp.
notes: label: Description
content: The blue and yellow cardboard box originally held condoms. Text on the front of the box reads “Smithies Genuine Latex Prophylactics MANUFACTURED BY THE ALLIED LATEX CORP. HASKELL, NEW JERSEY U.S.A.” At the bottom of the box, text reads “ONE QUARTER DOZEN.” The Allied Latex Corporation manufactured a variety of condoms, including Gems condoms.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Passaic
topic: label: Subject
content: Sex
label: associated subject; web subject
content: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0871.87
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0871.87
label: accession number
content: 1983.0871
objectType: label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, condom
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/8 in x 1 5/8 in x 1/2 in; 5.3975 cm x 4.1275 cm x 1.27 cm