Triphasil-21 Oral Contraceptive
date: label: date made
content: ca 1984
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 Triphasil-21 brand oral contraceptive around 1984. The monthly dosage of 28 pills consists of 6 brown, 5 white, 10 yellow, and 7 green tablets in a blister pack housed in a grey compact case. Triphasil-21 is packaged in a purple box with the advertising slogan, “The First Oral Contraceptive Tuned to <i>Her</i> Timing,” and includes an instructional paper insert.
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: 1988.0655.06
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0655.06
label: accession number
content: 1988.0655
objectType: label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, oral
label: Other Terms
content: case; Contraceptive; Oral Contraceptive
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (envelope material)
label: Physical Description
content: levonorgestrel, 0.050 mg; ethinyl estradiol, 0.030 mg (drug (brown tablet) active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: levonorgestrel, 0.075 mg; ethinyl estradiol, 0.040 mg (drug (white tablet) active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: levonorgestrel, 0.125 mg; ethinyl estradiol, 0.030 mg (drug (yellow tablet) active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: foil (blister pack material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (blister pack material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (inserts material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.9 cm x 8.8 cm x 7.6 cm; 3/4 in x 3 7/16 in x 3 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 3 1/2 in x 3/4 in; 7.62 cm x 8.89 cm x 1.905 cm