Plan B Emergency Contraceptive
date: label: date made
content: 2001-09
label: product expiration date
content: 2003-09
name: label: maker
content: Women's Capital Corporation
label: maker
content: Gedeon Richter, Ltd.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Gedeon Richter, Ltd. of Budapest, Hungary, produced this Plan B emergency contraceptive in 2001. The Women’s Capital Corporation of Kirkland, Washington, distributed these Plan B pills. Two tablets of levonorgestrel are packaged in a blue cardboard folder that is sealed in plastic. An additional Demo pill pack is included and contains no pills. The interior of the folder contains directions for use, and a small paper of patient information tucked into a slot in the cardboard. The reverse side of the folder contains more detailed information about what Plan B is and how it is used. Included in the packaging is a tri-fold cardboard informational pamphlet that uses a rendition of Rosie the Riveter with the slogan “Back up your Birth Control with EC.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Hungary: Budapest, Budapest
topic: label: Subject
content: Birth Control/Contraception
label: Subject
content: Women's Health
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Birth Control
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Women's Capital Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0351.01
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0351.01
label: accession number
content: 2002.0351
objectType: label: Object Name
content: emergency contraceptive, oral
label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, oral
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: levonorgestrel, 0.75 mg (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (container material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7.8 cm x 9 cm x .8 cm; 3 1/16 in x 3 9/16 in x 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 3 1/2 in x 1/4 in; 7.62 cm x 8.89 cm x .635 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, reference tri-fold card: 1/8 in x 3 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in; .3175 cm x 8.89 cm x 13.97 cm