See more Tampax items: American
ad from August 1965 - nudity in an ad: May 1992 (United Kingdom) - a sign
advertising Tampax during World War II - the original patent
- an instruction sheet from the 1930s
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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Tampax menstrual tampon, with box, from its first year in its first
successful (although not first) company, 1936, U.S.A.
The lowest item in the top picture is the complete tampon in its cellophane
wrapper. Above it are the two cardboard components of the tampon.
Tambrands, the former maker of Tampax, gave
this museum a dealer's case of these tampons, part of a fantastic gift.
See the enclosed instructions - a dealers' advisory - advice
to dealers about explaining the tampon to customers
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The upper part of the lower image shows a side of the box. The fuzziness
of the image is the fault of the operator of the scanner, the MUM director
- me. Cellophane wraps the box and tampon.
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See the enclosed instructions - a dealers' advisory - advice
to dealers about explaining the tampon to customers
See more Tampax items: See similar Tampax bulletins from the early 1950s - Read Dr.
Dickinson's study of the advantages of tampons
over pads. See Dutch Tampax ads from 1938 (and
here, virtually identical to a contemporary
American ad) American ad from August 1965 - nudity
in an ad: May 1992 (United Kingdom) - a sign advertising Tampax during World War II - the original
patent - an instruction
sheet from the 1930s
copyright 1999 Harry Finley
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