Queentex
date: label: date made
content: ca mid 20th century
notes: label: Description
content: This is a black plastic, bullet shaped container with a gold metal bottom. The container has an embossed triangular gold foil label with an image of a queen wearing a crown. The container originally held condoms but it is empty today.
label: Description
content: American attitudes toward sex have often emphasized the idea of discretion. In the 1940s and 1950s, when condoms could only be sold as a means of preventing disease, Americans often kept condoms hidden. A container like this could easily be mistaken for a lipstick in a woman's purse.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: associated subject; web subject
content: Birth Control/Contraception
label: associated subject; web subject
content: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
label: Subject
content: Sex
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: 1983.0871.83
label: accession number
content: 1983.0871
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0871.83
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Condom
label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, condom case
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/8 in x 5/8 in; 5.3975 cm x 1.5875 cm