Pan Prophylactics, One Gross
date: label: date made
content: ca 1930s
name: label: maker
content: W. H. Reed & Co., Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Cardboard box with brown lid. Blue print. Image of Pan (satyr) blowing horn. Box contains 12 cardboard packages with similar Pan logo, each containing 4 individually wrapped condoms.
label: Description
content: This Pan brand condom was manufactured during the first half of the 20th century. The cardboard container features an image of the mythic Greek god Pan playing his flute. The image of Pan was likely used because of Pan’s association with sexuality and male virility. A flap lifts up to reveal two condoms and the text “Fine Quality.”
label: Description
content: In 1938, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) labeled condoms a “medical device;” this enabled the FDA to test condoms to ensure that they did not have holes or tears. Before 1938, companies that voluntarily tested their condoms often made a point of advertising their condoms as “tested.” Not all companies that claimed to test their condoms, however, did so.
label: Description
content: Condoms such as these which claimed to be "tested" tended to be more expensive than those which were untested.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Georgia, Atlanta
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: 1983.0871.80
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0871.80
label: accession number
content: 1983.0871
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Condoms
label: Object Name
content: Stock Box
label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, condom
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3.2 cm x 25.6 cm x 11.8 cm; 1 1/4 in x 10 1/16 in x 4 5/8 in
label: Measurements
content: carton: 10 1/8 in x 5 in x 1 1/4 in; 25.7175 cm x 12.7 cm x 3.175 cm
label: Measurements
content: sleeves: 2 1/8 in x 1 5/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 5.3975 cm x 4.1275 cm x 3.175 cm
label: Measurements
content: individual boxes: 2 1/8 in x 1 5/8 in x 1/4 in; 5.3975 cm x 4.1275 cm x .635 cm