Object Details
- Description
- Cardboard sleeve with blue dots and black text holds a hinged, white, cardboard box. Box contains one rubber diaphragm marked "ortho / 80." The box has small ventilation holes on the bottom. Box includes a stapled booklet, "Directions for Use and Care of the Diaphragm" which includes illustrations. Text on box sleeve: "ortho / diaphragm / PACKAGE F . . . DIAPHRAGM -- Distributed by / ORTHO PRODUCTS, INC., LINDEN, NEW JERSEY MADE IN U.S.A. / CAUTION: To be used only by or on the prescription of a physician." The "ortho" trademark appearing on this package was registered April 29, 1941; claimed use since Nov 28, 1940. Reg No. 387,080.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 1941-1945
- trademark registration date ("ortho")
- 1941-04-29
- Credit Line
- The Fournet Drugstore Collection
- Physical Description
- cardboard (sleeve material)
- cardboard (box material)
- paper (booklet material)
- rubber (diaphragm material)
- Measurements
- overall: 96 cm x 96 cm x 2.5 cm; 37 13/16 in x 37 13/16 in x in
- overall, box: 3 3/4 in x 3 3/4 in x 7/8 in; 9.525 cm x 9.525 cm x 2.2225 cm
- Object Name
- contraceptive, diaphragm
