Triphasil-28 Oral Contraceptive
date: label: date made
content: ca 1998
name: label: maker
content: Wyeth Laboratories Inc.
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 Inc. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, produced this Triphasil-28 brand oral contraceptive around 1998. The box contains a foil wrapped mini-cycle pack dispenser, informational leaflet, and pink plastic wallet for the dispenser. The monthly dosage consists of 28 tablets, 6 brown tablets, 5 white tablets, 10 yellow tablets, and 7 green tablets. The green tablets are inert pills that are taken to maintain the routine of taking a daily pill. The cycle pack dispenser has a center wheel inscribed with the days of the week and an outer ring of pills that can be aligned with the day of the week corresponding to the start of the pill cycle.
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: Gift of Gladys Johnson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.0118.09
label: accession number
content: 2004.0118
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0118.09
objectType: label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, oral
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: levonorgestrel, 0.050 mg; ethinyl estradiol, 0.030 mg (drug (brown tablet) active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: foil, aluminum (package material)
label: Physical Description
content: vinyl (folder material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (instructions insert material)
label: Physical Description
content: levonorgestrel, 0.075 mg; ethinyl estradiol, 0.040 mg (drug (white tablet) active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: levonorgestrel, 0.125 mg; ethinyl estradiol, 0.030 mg (drug (yellow tablet) active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 cm x 9 cm x 3 cm; 5 1/8 in x 3 9/16 in x 1 3/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall, box: 5 1/4 in x 3 1/2 in x 1 1/8 in; 13.335 cm x 8.89 cm x 2.8575 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, pill pack: 4 3/4 in x 3 in x 1/2 in; 12.065 cm x 7.62 cm x 1.27 cm