Ortho Coil Spring Diaphragm
date: label: Date made
content: ca. 1986
label: date made
content: ca 1986
label: product expiration date
content: 1986-01
name: label: maker
content: Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription on the box containing a contraceptive diaphragm reads “Ortho / coil spring / diaphragm / ORTHO PHARMACEUTICAL / CORPORATION / Raritan, New Jersey, 08869.” Ortho Products, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, was established in Chicago in 1931 to market Ortho-Gynol, the first prescription spermicidal contraceptive jelly. The firm bought a building in Linden, N.J., in 1940, and became Ortho Pharmaceutical in 1945.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Raritan
topic: label: Subject
content: Birth Control/Contraception
label: Subject
content: Women's Health
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. Steven Radoff
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0014.12
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0014.12
label: accession number
content: 1993.0014
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Diaphragm
label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, diaphragm
label: Other Terms
content: Diaphragm; Contraceptive
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 12 cm x 12 cm x 2.2 cm; 4 3/4 in x 4 3/4 in x 7/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall, box: 5 in x 4 7/8 in x 1 in; 12.7 cm x 12.3825 cm x 2.54 cm