See early tampoms Dale, Wix and B-ettes and a bunch of other earlier ones.
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See a San-Nap-Pak ad from 1945 in American Girl, the Girl Scout magazine, and a box of San-Nap-Pak tampons
See a Modess True or False? ad in The American Girl magazine, January 1947, and actress Carol Lynley in "How Shall I Tell My Daughter" booklet ad (1955) - Modess . . . . because ads (many dates).
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Sa-tips menstrual tampons (1930s-1940s? U.S.A.)
Tampon

See the box.

Procter & Gamble kindly donated the box and contents as part of a gift of scores of menstrual products.

Each tampon bears seven 0.5" (about 1.26 cm) cuts (arrows), probably to increase flexibility or absorption. The string channels into two of them. The tampon measures 2.125" (5.5 cm) long and 0.625" in diameter (about 1.5 cm); the string is 3" (about 7.6 cm) long. The tampon seems to be rolled cellulose.

 

The box contains an envelope, above, that holds eight tampons; it arrived opened, probably by someone at Tampax.

See the box.

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