Booklets menstrual hygiene companies made
for girls, women and teachers - patent medicine
- a list of books and articles about menstruation
See early tampons and a list of tampons on this site - at least the ones I've cataloged.
 
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Small Wonder:
How Tambrands began, prospered, and grew
Soft-cover book, 48 pages, 1986, U.S.A.
Company/corporate history of Tambrands, maker of Tampax menstrual tampons,
sanitary napkins, Draghi cancer detection tampons, Valex baby panties, Maxithins
external pads, First Response home diagnostic kit, etc.
Tambrands, the maker of Tampax from 1936 to 1997 (but not the first
maker), probably commissioned this beautiful book to give to business partners,
company employees, and interested parties in 1986 (and beyond), the company's
50th anniversary.
The author is listed at the bottom of p. 3 but no copyright, trademark
or publisher information graces the pages. You'll not find an index, sources
for information or bibliography. It reads as if the writer did interview
Tampax luminaries and comb the company archives.
With that in mind read the well-written and hardly boring history of
one of the makers of what Consumer Reports called one of the "50 small wonders and big deals that revolutionized
the lives of consumers" - the tampon.
See a Tiffany bowl also celebrating the 50th
anniversary of Tampax Inc. and Tambrands.
I thank the former Tambrands for donating the book!
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Below: The thick paper cover measures 9
1/2 x 11" (24 x 27.7 cm).
The art deco style cover seems to reflect
the design atmosphere of 1936,
the year Tampax Incorporated started.
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NEXT | cover - first ad (picture) (1936) - "a catamenial device":
early Tampax history - Ellery Mann organizes Tampax Inc. -
Tampax Inc. begins - Tampons danger
to morality - how to sell Tampax - 3 kinds
of Tampax ads - first
Tampax ad (analysis) -
Playtex innovations - early investors
- making Tampax - 1937: ads expensive,
losses - success, ads key - Tampax expands,
buys competitors - Tampax loses applicator lawsuit,
Medipax fails - Tampax women "demonstrators" - NY
World's Fair,
educational dept. starts - medical studies
- improving cotton & machinery - heating tampons - Tampax goes to war
(WW II) -
Tampax moves to Palmer, Mass. (1942) - how to
wrap Tampax? - soaring
sales in WW II - putting the little tube inside
the big one - the Tampax family
- cheating the company - boss a big
joker - 1946: drug-trade miracle - success & Hurricane Diana -
shortcomings - losing
market to Playtex & Rely tampons - TSS:
toxic shock syndrome - Tampax recovers & diversifies -
1984: name changes to Tambrands - Tambrands goin' good
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