And see the applicator Pursettes tampon with
lubricated applicator and tampon.
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 trial-size box lubricated menstrual
tampons (1930s-1940s?, U.S.A.)
Introduction, box, and a newspaper ad from 1944 (see the regular Dale)
As I said on the main Dale page, Dale typifies
American tampons from the 1930s and 1940s in the lack of an applicator,
one version of which Tampax patented in the 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
tampon with a lubricated tip in the U.S.A., Pursettes. That company also made one with a lubricated
applicator as well as a tip.
The Procter & Gamble company kindly donated these tampons to
the museum, part of a large gift.
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Below: The cardboard box measures 3 x 2
5/16 x 3/4" (7.6 x 5.8 x 1.9 cm). It looks as if tape had once adhered
to the box.
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Below: Wouldn't it be neat if was intended
for the Lindbergh baby kidnapping trial?
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Below: A previous owner (Procter &
Gamble?) wrote on a long side of the box.
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Below: The other side.
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Below: The same hand
wrote on the end flap!
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Below: Open the end flaps and instead of
tampons you see the side of a cardboard box
- the drawer.
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Below: Pull the drawer out to reveal a
single fluffed-up tampon and no
instructions
(See the regular size box instructions).
Grave robbers à la King Tut struck years
ago - at Procter & Gamble?
The fluffing up might mean that someone examined it - and maybe
that person performed the suggested water test
with at least one of the missing three 'pons.
A drawer also held the tampons in the regular Dale
just as it did with
Wix tampons.
Just occurred to me: could the unnecessary drawer mean this box dated
before
rationing saved raw materials in World War II?
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Below: The tampon string emerged wrapped
around what looks like the cellophane wrapper.
The string stretches about 6 1/4" (about
16 cm) from its end to the edge of the tampon.
The yellow tip is much smaller than the
lubrication on the tip of the
regular box tampons.
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Below: The yellow
lubricated tip of the tampon.
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End
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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