MORE Tampax booklets & the company history:
Hvordan Kroppen Din Forandrer Seg
("How Your Body Changes," complete booklet, Tampax tampons, Norway, 1990; my translation) A Norwegian kindly donated the booklet

It's a Woman's World (complete booklet, [1980s?] Tampax, U.S.A.)
it's time you knew . . . [all about menstruation] (complete booklet, 1966, Tampax, U.S.A.)

Q girls & boys A (complete booklet, 1987, Tambrands, U.S.A.) Puberty booklet for girl & boy teens. Explains menstruation, adolescence, personal care, exercise, tampons, menstrual pads, nutrition, TSS, skin care & it promotes Tampax Maxithins, panty shields, & tampons

Small Wonder: How Tambrands began, prospered and grew (1986, 50th anniversary of the company) history of Tampax Inc. and Tambrands that the company probably commissioned. Tambrands generously donated the beautiful book.

Modess booklets: Growing Up and Liking It (complete booklets: 1944, 1949, 1957, 1963, 1964, 1970, 1972, 1976, 1991 The Personal Products Company, U.S.A.) (many covers, 1944-1978)
Many puberty educational booklets for girls
Wrapped Modess pad for dispenser (1930s?) - Modess ad, U.K., 1936 - True or False? Modess ad in The American Girl magazine, January 1947
Panties: Modess "Sanitary Shield" (two-band pad holder in crotch; 1970s; U.S.A.)
Modess "Panti-kini" (two-band holder to hold pad in crotch; 1960s-1970s, U.S.A.)
Many more women's underpants


See also Ads for Teens

"A Teaching Guide for Menstrual Hygiene" (cover, 1962, Personal Products Corp., U.S.A.)
"A Teacher's Guide to Feminine Hygiene" (cover, 1973, Personal Products Corp., U.S.A.)
"Educational Material on Menstruation furnished by the makers of Tampax" (1966) U.S.A.
Folder with huge number of information sheets, etc.
"Educational Portfolio on Menstrual Hygiene" (1968) U.S.A. Teacher's kit for Modess sanitary napkins, menstrual tampons and panties (mostly complete)
"From Fiction to Fact: a teaching guide about puberty, menstruation and the human reproductive system" (complete 1966, 1986, Tambrands, U.S.A. The 1966 version is part of the huge "Educational Material on Menstruation furnished by the makers of Tampax," 1966)
"Teacher's kit" (complete, early 1950s, Personal Products Corp., U.S.A.)

HOMEPAGE
CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could?
Some MUM site links:
HOMEPAGE |
MUM address & What does MUM mean? |
Email the museum |
Privacy on this site |
Who runs this museum?? |
Amazing women! |
Art of menstruation (and awesome ancient art of menstruation) |
Artists (non-menstrual) |
Asbestos |
Belts |
Bidets |
Birth control and religion |
Birth control drugs, old |
Birth control douche & sponges |
Founder bio |
Bly, Nellie |
MUM board |
Books: menstruation & menopause (& reviews) |
Cats |
Company booklets for girls (mostly) directory |
Contraception and religion |
Contraceptive drugs, old |
Contraceptive douche & sponges |
Costumes |
Menstrual cups |
Cup usage |
Dispensers |
Douches, pain, sprays |
Essay directory |
Examination, gynecological (pelvic) (short history) |
Extraction |
Facts-of-life booklets for girls |
Famous women in menstrual hygiene ads |
FAQ |
Feminine napkin, towel, pad directory |
Founder/director biography |
Gynecological topics by Dr. Soucasaux |
Humor |
Huts |
Links |
Masturbation |
Media coverage of MUM |
Menarche booklets for girls and parents |
Miscellaneous |
Museum future |
Norwegian menstruation exhibit |
Odor |
Olor |
Pad, towel, napkin directory |
Patent medicine |
Poetry directory |
Products, some current |
Puberty booklets for girls and parents|
Religion |
Religión y menstruación |
Your remedies for menstrual discomfort |
Menstrual products safety |
Sanitary napkin, towel, pad directory |
Seguridad de productos para la menstruación |
Science |
Shame |
Slapping, menstrual |
Sponges |
Synchrony |
Tampon directory |
Early tampons |
Teen ads directory |
Tour of the former museum (video) |
Towel, pad, sanitary napkin directory |
Underpants & panties directory |
Videos, films directory |
Words and expressions about menstruation |
Would you stop menstruating if you could? |
What did women do about menstruation in the past? |
Washable pads |
Read 10 years (1996-2006) of articles and Letters to Your MUM on this site.
Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación.

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it's natural[,] it's normal[,] it has
a purpose... by Eleanor Howe
(1952, Tampax Inc., U.S.A.)

Main booklet page.

About the same time, a booklet from Kotex appeared: "You're a young lady now" (complete booklet, 1952, Kotex, U.S.A.) The first owner might have printed her named on the back of the booklet. A later complete booklet, 1959, apparently with the owner's name cut out.

I thank the Dutch donor for these scans and many other items donated to this museum!


Below: Pp. 6-7. The illustration comes from a sculpture Tampax commissioned.
I wonder how many girls found this physiology interesting.


NEXT | covers 2-3 4-5 6-7 8-9 10-11 12-13 14-15

About the same time, a booklet from Kotex: "You're a young lady now" (complete booklet, 1952, Kotex, U.S.A.) The first owner might have printed her named on the back of the booklet. Complete booklet, 1959, apparently with the owner's name cut out.

Many more BOOKLETS - See TAMPONS, MENSTRUAL BELTS, PADS, CUPS, SPONGES, UNDERPANTS

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