Preven Demonstration Emergency Contraceptive Kit
date: label: date made
content: 1999
name: label: maker
content: Gynetics
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: Gynétics Medical Products of Somerville, New Jersey, produced this Preven demonstration emergency contraceptive kit around 1999. The kit contains a patient information book, a pregnancy test, and four pills in two pairs inside a silver blister pack. The kit opens into three panels bearing step-by-step instructions on how to use the emergency contraceptive kit. Unlike the version of Preven seen in object 1999.0226.1, this kit was for demonstration purposes only.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Somerville
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: Gynetics Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0226.2
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0226.2
label: accession number
content: 1999.0226
objectType: label: Object Name
content: emergency contraceptive kit, demonstration
label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, oral; emergency contraception
label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, oral
label: Object Name
content: emergency contraception
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (box, sleeve material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (booklet, insert material)
label: Physical Description
content: foil (blister pack material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (packaging material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (blister pack material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.2 cm x 22 cm x 6.5 cm; 7/8 in x 8 11/16 in x 2 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 8 5/8 in x 7/8 in; 6.35 cm x 21.9075 cm x 2.2225 cm