Condom vial
date: label: date made
content: mid 20th century
notes: label: Description
content: This white plastic cylindrical vial contains one green foil-wrapped condom.
label: Description
content: American attitudes toward sex have often emphasized the idea of discretion. Throughout much of the twentieth century, when condoms could only be sold as a means of preventing disease, Americans often kept condoms hidden. A container like this could easily be mistaken for a lipstick in a woman's purse.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: associated subject; web subject
content: Birth Control/Contraception
label: associated subject; web subject
content: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
label: 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: 1988.0318.09
label: accession number
content: 1988.0318
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0318.09
objectType: label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, condom
label: Other Terms
content: contraceptive, condom; Contraceptive Devices
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: latex (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/8 in x 5/8 in; x 5.3975 cm x 1.5875 cm