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.)
Instructions enlarged
- instructions (general)
The Procter & Gamble company kindly
donated these tampons to the museum, part
of a large gift.
The next page
after the one below is the entire back of
the sheet.
The
reader opens the pamphlet and
sees the page right below.
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Now the reader flips up the bottom of
the page above and sees the NEXT PAGE,
which is the entire back of the sheet.
See the tampon
and box (main page)
From the 1950s to
the 1970s women could buy another
lubricated tampon in the U.S.A., Pursettes.
Tampon
directory
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