Norlestrin Fe Oral Contraceptive
name: label: maker
content: Parke-Davis and Company
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: Parke-Davis and Company of Detroit, Michigan produced this Norlestrin Fe brand oral contraceptive around 1968. This olive-green plastic Petipac tablet dispenser contains a blister pack with 28 tablets. The blister pack organizes the monthly pill regimen into weekly rows, with three rows of 7 yellow Norlestrin tablets and one row of 7 brown pills (iron supplements). The inside top of the compact has a space for the prescription label, and a place to record the first day of the pill regimen.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Detroit
label: associated place
content: United States: Louisiana, Saint Martinville
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: The Fournet Drugstore Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0475.140
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0475.140
label: accession number
content: 1985.0475
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical, compact of
label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, oral
label: Other Terms
content: pharmaceutical, compact of; Pharmaceutical; Contraceptive; Oral Contraceptive; Tablet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: norethindrone acetate, 1 mg (drug (yellow tablet) active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: ethinyl estradiol, 0.05 mg (drug (yellow tablet) active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: ferrous fumarate, 75 mg (drug (brown tablet) active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (compact material)
label: Physical Description
content: foil (packaging material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (leaflet material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .6 cm x 11.5 cm x 7.2 cm; 1/4 in x 4 1/2 in x 2 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 7/8 in x 4 1/2 in x 1/4 in; 7.3025 cm x 11.43 cm x .635 cm