Desogen Oral Contraceptives
date: label: date made
content: 1993
name: label: maker
content: Organon 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: Organon International of Oss, Holland, produced this Desogen oral contraceptive at their American subsidiary in West Orange, New Jersey, around 1993. This professional sample of Desogen is in a sealed foil wrapper that contains a tablet dispenser with 21 white hormonal tablets and 7 inert green tablets.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, West Orange
topic: label: Subject
content: Birth Control/Contraception
label: Subject
content: Women's Health
setName: label: See more items in
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: 2004.0118.01
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0118.01
label: accession number
content: 2004.0118
objectType: label: Object Name
content: oral contraceptive
label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, oral
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: desogestrel, 0.15 mg (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: ethinyl estradiol, 0.03 mg (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: foil (packet material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 cm x 5.5 cm x 1 cm; 5 1/8 in x 2 3/16 in x 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 5 1/8 in x 1/2 in; 6.35 cm x 13.0175 cm x 1.27 cm