Recall the Dalkon Shields
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1975
notes: label: Description
content: A white T-shirt with a black design on the front. There is a slogan "Recall the Dalkun Shields" with an image of a shield.
label: Description
content: The Dalkon Shield, introduced in 1970 and recalled in 1975, was a plastic contraceptive IUD (Intra-uterine device) which looked like a round bug with one large eye and five legs on each side. It had a unique tail: not a single filament, but many fibers wound together and enclosed in a sheath. A series of 12 deaths due to miscarriage-related infections in the early 1970s drove the popular IUD called the Dalkon Shield off the market, sent its manufacturer into bankruptcy, and tarnished the image of all IUDs for decades to come.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: used
content: Feminist Movement
label: referenced
content: Women's Health Products
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History, Women's History Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.0038.17
label: accession number
content: 2004.0038
objectType: label: Object Name
content: T-shirt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: black; white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 27 in x 25 in; 68.58 cm x 63.5 cm