Object Details
- Description
- A box with brown paper wrapping and blue print. The box contains 24 suppositories and was priced at $1.00. Text on wrapper includes: "Hy'ne Vaginal / Suppositories / Has been on the / market since 1887" The Hy'ne trademark also appears on the wrapper: a woman's head in profile surrounded by a halo of light rays with the HY'NE name above. The box is sealed and unopened. Made by the Hy'ne Company, 1737-1741 N. Campbell Ave., Chicago, IL.
- Trademark registered 1932.
- This object is one of over 700 items from Glaser’s Drug Store of Sayre, Pennsylvania. In 1921, Simon Glaser (1860-1936), an immigrant from Russian Poland, established the drug store at 121 West Packer Avenue in Sayre, PA. His son, Sidney Glaser (1899-1992), soon joined him in the business and continued to operate the store until 1961. After retiring, Sidney Glaser retained thousands of products dating from the 1920s – 1960s, including pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, personal care products, and vitamins, and donated many of them to the Smithsonian in 1985.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Sidney Glaser
- ca 1930s
- ID Number
- 1985.0481.073
- catalog number
- 1985.0481.073
- accession number
- 1985.0481
- Object Name
- feminine hygiene product
- vaginal suppositories
- Measurements
- overall: 2 1/8 in x 3 in x 1 1/8 in; 5.3975 cm x 7.62 cm x 2.8575 cm
- place made
- United States: Illinois, Chicago
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Beauty and Hygiene Products: Feminine Care
- Beauty and Health
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Women's Health
- Record ID
- nmah_1415476
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-8fa6-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
