See booklet ads from the 1950s and 1970s featuring the future actresses
Carol Lynley and Susan Dey,
one from Germany, and one for the Kotex booklet
"As One Girl To Another."
See a Kotex ad advertising a Marjorie May
booklet.
See many more similar booklets.
See ads for menarche-education booklets:
Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1932),
Tampax tampons (1970, with Susan Dey), Personal
Products (1955, with Carol Lynley), and German o.b.
tampons (lower ad, 1981)
And read Lynn Peril's series about these
and similar booklets!
Read the full text of the 1935 Canadian edition
of Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday, probably identical to the American edition.
More ads for teens (see also introductory
page for teenage advertising): Are you in the know? (Kotex napkins and Quest napkin powder, 1948, U.S.A.),
Are you in the know? (Kotex
napkins and belts, 1949, U.S.A.)Are you in
the know? (Kotex napkins, 1953, U.S.A.),
Are you in the know? (Kotex
napkins and belts, 1964, U.S.A.), Freedom
(1990, Germany), Kotex (1992, U.S.A.), Pursettes (1974, U.S.A.), Pursettes (1974, U.S.A.), Saba (1975, Denmark)
See early tampons and a list of tampon on this site - at least the ones I've cataloged.
 
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Window-dressing contest for Kotex menstrual pads, 1920s, U.S.A.
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In the U.S.A., Kotex sponsored window-dressing contests in the 1920s,
and gave prizes to the best! This is part of
a page that appeared in trade magazines.
The Cellucotton Products company also bragged about supplying the country
with pads in some extraordinary photographs.
Courtesy of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin
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