Case’s Dittrick Medical History Center Receives World’s Largest Historical Birth Control Device Collection

Public can view collection at Allen Memorial Medical Library through March

CLEVELAND (Dec. 2, 2004) -- A donation of more than 650 artifacts and 150 books and ephemera in the Percy Skuy Collection on the History of Contraception—the world’s largest assemblage of historical birth control products—arrived on Dec. 1 at Case Western Reserve University’s Dittrick Medical History Center.

To celebrate the collections arrival, the public can view the exhibit in the Reading Room on the second floor of the Allen Memorial Medical Library, 11000 Euclid Avenue, through the end of March 2005. In addition to birth control devices, it also has books, birth control marketing materials and audiotapes and videos of interviews with the collection’s founder.

For more details, see http://www.case.edu/news/2004/12-04/skuycollection.htm

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