Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- 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.
- Wyeth Laboratories of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, produced this Nordette brand oral contraceptive around 1982. The 21-pill regimen is in a grey blister pack that slides into a grey plastic sleeve. The prescription also comes with a booklet containing patient information.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Wyeth Laboratories
- booklet printed
- 1982-07
- date made
- ca 1984
- product expiration date
- 1984-10
- Credit Line
- Gift of Gladys Abell Johnson
- Physical Description
- levonorgestrel, 0.15 mg (drug active ingredients)
- plastic (sleeve material)
- plastic (package material)
- paper (booklet material)
- ethinyl estradiol, 0.03 mg (drug active ingredients)
- Measurements
- overall: .5 cm x 12 cm x 19.8 cm; 3/16 in x 4 3/4 in x 7 13/16 in
- overall: 5 1/2 in x 2 1/4 in x 1/4 in; 13.97 cm x 5.715 cm x .635 cm
- Object Name
- contraceptive, oral
- Other Terms
- contraceptive, oral; Pharmaceutical; Contraceptive; Oral Contraceptive
