Chariots Prophylactic
date: label: date made
content: ca 1930s-1940s
name: label: maker
content: Goodwear Rubber Co., Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: This blue and red 2-piece box originally held condoms. The box has an image of a charioteer driving a troika in a coliseum. The box is empty.
label: Description
content: Charles Goodyear is often credited with developing vulcanization, the process which hardens and molds rubber. While Goodyear became best known for its tires, the company also produced condoms during the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth century.
label: Description
content: These Chariot condoms were distributed by the Goodwear Rubber Company Inc. of New York, New York during the middle of the 20th century. The blue and red box cardboard box features a central image of a charioteer driving a troika in a coliseum. The box originally contained three “Chariots” brand condoms.
label: Description
content: To underscore the idea that virile men used condoms, packages and advertising commonly used images of men engaging in sports or war. Many brand names also referenced classical Greece and Rome.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: associated subject; web subject
content: Birth Control/Contraception
label: associated subject; web subject
content: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
label: associated subject; web 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: 1983.0871.69
label: accession number
content: 1983.0871
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0871.69
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Condoms
label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, condom
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.5 cm x 9 cm x 1.5 cm; in x 3 9/16 in x 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 4 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in; 2.54 cm x 11.43 cm x 8.89 cm