Nordette 28 Oral Contraceptive
date: label: date made
content: ca 1991
name: label: maker
content: Wyeth
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: The popularity of “the Pill” created a new market for pharmaceutical companies. For the first time, healthy women would be taking medication for an extended period of time. Pill manufacturers developed unique packaging in order to distinguish their product from those of their competitors and build brand loyalty. Packaging design often incorporated a “memory aid” to assist women in tracking their daily pill regimen, as well as styled cases to allow pills to be discreetly carried in bags and purses. The National Museum of American History’s Division of Medicine and Science’s collection of oral contraceptives illustrates some of the changes that the packaging and marketing of the Pill underwent from its inception in 1960 to the present.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Wyeth Laboratories of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, produced this Nordette brand oral contraceptive around 1991. The 28 pill regimen is in a grey blister pack with “sample” repeatedly printed in black over the pack. A silver blister pack fits into a grey plastic holder with the days of the week embossed around the perimeter. The holder and blister pack slides into the included plastic sleeve decorated with flowers and a butterfly.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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: Dr. Linda S. Potter
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0360.04
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0360.04
label: accession number
content: 1997.0360
objectType: label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, oral
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (sleeve material)
label: Physical Description
content: foil (blister pack material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (blister pack holder material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (blister pack material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18.3 cm x 5.8 cm x .8 cm; 7 7/32 in x 2 9/32 in x 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 7 1/8 in x 1/4 in; 5.715 cm x 18.0975 cm x .635 cm