Ogen 2.5 Tab-Pak Estrogen Pill
date: label: drug
content: 1979
label: paper cover
content: 1977
name: label: maker
content: Abbott Laboratories
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: Abbott Laboratories of Chicago, Illinois, produced this Ogen 2.5 brand estrogen hormonal treatment around 1977. The yellow, blue, and orange packaging has a cutout to reveal a sample pill. The 21 pills are in a trapezoidal blister pack inside a blue trapezoidal blister pack holder. The holder has the days of the week embossed around the perimeter. These pills contain 2.5 mg of sodium estrone sulfate.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, North Chicago
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 Abell and Lester D. Johnson, Jr., M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0760.074
label: accession number
content: 1981.0760
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0760.074
objectType: label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, oral
label: Other Terms
content: Contraceptives; Patent Medicines; Drugs; Non-Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: piperazine estrone sulfate, 3 mg. (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (case cover material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (blister pack material)
label: Physical Description
content: foil (blister pack material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (leaflet material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14.4 cm x 5.8 cm x .8 cm; 5 11/16 in x 2 5/16 in x 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall, pill pack: 2 1/4 in x 5 3/4 in x 3/8 in; 5.715 cm x 14.605 cm x .9525 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, leaflet: 6 in x 13 5/8 in; 15.24 cm x 34.6075 cm