Saxon
date: label: date made
content: ca 1980s
name: label: maker
content: Circle Rubber Corp.
notes: label: Description
content: This Saxon Condom was manufactured by Circle Rubber Incorporated of Newark, New Jersey during the 1980s. The white cover of the package features red text with the image of a crown with the letter “S” on the top. The text reads “Lubra Pak/Micro-Thin Transparent Lubricated Prophylactic.”
label: Description
content: This single Saxon condom packaged in a cardboard cover was available in vending machines. Throughout the twentieth century, vending machines provided an easy way to discreetly distribute condoms
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Newark
topic: label: associated subject; web subject
content: Birth Control/Contraception
label: associated subject; web subject
content: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
label: associated subject; web subject
content: Sex
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0416.050
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0416.050
label: accession number
content: 1989.0416
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Condom
label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, condom, novelty
label: Other Terms
content: Condom; Contraceptive Devices
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/8 in x 1 1/2 in x 1/4 in; 5.3975 cm x 3.81 cm x .635 cm