Oral Contraceptive
date: label: date made
content: 1972-1978
label: date made
content: ca 1975
name: label: maker
content: Warner
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: Warner-Lambert Research Institute of Morris Plains, New Jersey produced this unlabeled oral contraceptive. The blister pack contains 28 red pills. The reverse side of the blister pack has a “racetrack pattern” with arrows pointing in the direction to take the pills, with each pill labeled with a day of the week. No drug information is on the blister pack.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Morris Plains
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 Margaret Sanger Center
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0531.041
label: accession number
content: 1982.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0531.041
objectType: label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, oral
label: Other Terms
content: contraceptive, oral; Contraceptives; Patent Medicines; Drugs; Non-Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (packaging material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (packaging material)
label: Physical Description
content: aluminum (packaging material)
label: Physical Description
content: quingestanol acetate, 0.3 mg. (drug active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: part:: 20.5 cm x 10 cm; 8 1/16 in x 3 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: in case: 22.25 cm x 5.2 cm; 8 3/4 in x 2 1/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 10 in x 1/4 in; 10.16 cm x 25.4 cm x .635 cm