Marjorie May, three booklets, 1935 main page
See a Kotex ad advertising this booklet.
See Kotex items: First ad (1921;
scroll to bottom of page) - ad 1928 (Sears and Roebuck
catalog) - Lee Miller ads (first real person
in a menstrual hygiene ad, 1928) - Marjorie May's
Twelfth Birthday (booklet for girls, 1928, Australian edition; there
are many links here to Kotex items) - Preparing
for Womanhood (1920s, booklet for girls; Australian edition) - 1920s
booklet in Spanish showing disposal method
- box from about 1969 -
"Are you in the know?" ads
(Kotex) (1949)(1953)(1964)(booklet, 1956) -
See more ads on the Ads for Teenagers main page
DIRECTORY of all topics (See also the
SEARCH ENGINE, bottom
of page.)
 
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Pursettes menstrual tampon, puberty & menarche booklet, late 1950s?,
U.S.A.
Pursettes, a tampon with a lubricated tip,
and no longer produced, made this booklet for teenage girls, possibly in
the late 1950s or early 1960.
The Tambrands research library kindly gave it to MUM.
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Below: Back (to the left of the staples)
& front covers. Somebody at Tambrands, the company
that made Tampax, typed the
information on the front cover, probably showing where an ad for
this booklet appeared.
The closed book measures 4 7/8" x 6 7/8" (about 12.4 x 17.4 cm).
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