Object Details
- Women's Capital Corporation
- Gedeon Richter, Ltd.
- Description (Brief)
- Gedeon Richter, Ltd. of Budapest, Hungary, produced this Plan B emergency contraceptive in 2001. The Women’s Capital Corporation of Kirkland, Washington, distributed these Plan B pills. Two tablets of levonorgestrel are packaged in a blue cardboard folder that is sealed in plastic. An additional Demo pill pack is included and contains no pills. The interior of the folder contains directions for use, and a small paper of patient information tucked into a slot in the cardboard. The reverse side of the folder contains more detailed information about what Plan B is and how it is used. Included in the packaging is a tri-fold cardboard informational pamphlet that uses a rendition of Rosie the Riveter with the slogan “Back up your Birth Control with EC.”
- Credit Line
- Gift of Women's Capital Corporation
- 2001-09
- product expiration date
- 2003-09
- ID Number
- 2002.0351.01
- catalog number
- 2002.0351.01
- accession number
- 2002.0351
- Object Name
- emergency contraceptive, oral
- contraceptive, oral
- Physical Description
- levonorgestrel, 0.75 mg (drug active ingredients)
- paper (container material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7.8 cm x 9 cm x .8 cm; 3 1/16 in x 3 9/16 in x 5/16 in
- overall: 3 in x 3 1/2 in x 1/4 in; 7.62 cm x 8.89 cm x .635 cm
- overall, reference tri-fold card: 1/8 in x 3 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in; .3175 cm x 8.89 cm x 13.97 cm
- place made
- Hungary: Budapest, Budapest
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Birth Control
- Exhibition
- First Do No Harm
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Birth Control/Contraception
- Women's Health
- Record ID
- nmah_1183038
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-272a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
