Condom Pictures

It's really difficult to find pictures of condoms: textbooks of contraception and manufacturers' catalogues which include drawings or photos of a wide range of female caps (including diagrams of insertion), sponges, pessaries, douching sprays, etc, tend to show condoms, if at all, coyly in their wrapper or container. Even A. Netter and H. Rozenbaum's Histoire Illustrée de la Contraception (1985) doesn't have much on condoms. However, here are a few I have come across.

Some images from the catalogue of the Anglo-Scottish Surgical Stores, Glasgow, c. 1930:

and in addition, Le Brasseur's rolling machine for reusable condoms:

Sheaths as purveyed by J Greevz Fyssher of Leeds, c. 1890s

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the Vimule permanent sheath,

as purveyed by Lamberts of London, 1927

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line drawings

of the various kinds of condoms available in the 1930s, from George Ryley Scott's Male Methods of Contraception

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Durex packet c. 1940s: rim of otherwise perished condom faintly discernable inside

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But PLEASE NOTE, this is NOT a commercial site, I do NOT purvey condoms or have any interest in condom-related businesses, nor can I make any kind of consumer recommendations about condoms. I am willing to answer adequately expressed queries relating to condoms and birth control in history generally (but PLEASE see recommended reading, which will probably be MUCH more helpful).

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