See early tampoms Wix and B-ettes
and a bunch of other earlier ones.
See some Kotex items: First ad
(1921) - ad 1928 (Sears and Roebuck catalog)
- Lee Miller ads (first real person in amenstrual
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
 
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Dale lubricated menstrual tampons (1930s-1940s?, U.S.A.)
Introduction, box, and a newspaper ad from 1944
Dale typifies American tampons from the 1930s and 1940s in the lack
of an applicator, one version of which Tampax patented in the mid 1930s,
although at least one other applicator tampon existed from the era (Lox theatrical tampons).
Addressing point by point many of the objections women had to pads and
tampons - read a doctor's list of complaints
in Consumer Reports from 1945 - the instructions could indicate a 1940s
date for the box, as problems would have had time to be publicly addressed
by that time.
From the 1950s to the 1970s women could buy another
lubricated tampon in the U.S.A., Pursettes.
The Procter & Gamble company kindly donated these tampons to
the museum, part of a large gift.
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The scale is in centimeters.
The user pulls out a drawer with ten tampons wrapped in cellophane,
the strings loose. Wix tampons, which the Tampax company
absorbed in the 1930s, also came in a drawer box, with beautiful raised
text.
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The word TEN stands on the other side. The back and ends
of the box are blank but retain the color pattern.
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Newspaper ad from 1944 kindly sent by a genealogy researcher who also
contributed many other scans of early tampon ads. She wants to remain anonymous.
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See the tampon and instructions
- From the 1950s to the 1970s women could buy another
lubricated tampon in the U.S.A., Pursettes. See early tampoms Wix and
B-ettes and a bunch
of other earlier ones.
Tampon directory
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