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
(instructions in detail) and a test
The Procter & Gamble company kindly
donated these tampons to the museum, part
of a large gift.
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Back of brochure. B-ettes
tampons also cost about 2 cents
apiece, in 1939, as did many
others in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Front of brochure
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Below: the
"outside" of the brochure. Each
column formed a fold, and then was
divided in half, so that the whole
sheet wound up being one column
wide when completely closed, like
above. See both
sides close enough to read.
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See the instructions
in detail.
Someone, probably
from Procter & Gamble, cut out
the following
strip (we see the two
sides) and put it into the box. I
don't know where the strip came
from, but the paper, column width,
type size and font match the
brochure, above. I performed a water test,
but skipped the ring test. I
wonder how many women had the time
to do this. "Mom, I gotta use the
bathroom! What are you doing in
there?" her kids scream.
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See the instructions
in detail.
See the tampon
and box (main page) -
See early tampoms Wix
and B-ettes and a
bunch of other
earlier ones.
From the 1950s to the
1970s women could buy another lubricated
tampon in the U.S.A., Pursettes.
Tampon
directory
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