Nordette Oral Contraceptive
date: label: booklet printed
content: 1982-07
label: date made
content: ca 1984
label: product expiration date
content: 1984-10
name: label: maker
content: Wyeth 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: Wyeth Laboratories of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, produced this Nordette brand oral contraceptive around 1982. The 21-pill regimen is in a grey blister pack that slides into a grey plastic sleeve. The prescription also comes with a booklet containing patient information.
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 Abell Johnson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0655.13
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0655.13
label: accession number
content: 1988.0655
objectType: label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, oral
label: Other Terms
content: contraceptive, oral; Pharmaceutical; Contraceptive; Oral Contraceptive
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: levonorgestrel, 0.15 mg (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (sleeve material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (package material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (booklet material)
label: Physical Description
content: ethinyl estradiol, 0.03 mg (drug active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .5 cm x 12 cm x 19.8 cm; 3/16 in x 4 3/4 in x 7 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 2 1/4 in x 1/4 in; 13.97 cm x 5.715 cm x .635 cm