See a trial-size
Dale that someone's already tried.
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.)
Introduction, box, and
a newspaper ad from 1944
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Dale typifies American tampons
from the 1930s and 1940s in the
lack of an applicator, one
version of which Tampax patented
in the mid 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 lubricated tampon in
the U.S.A., Pursettes.
See a trial-size
Dale that someone's already tried.
And see the applicator
Pursettes tampon with lubricated
applicator and tampon.
The Procter & Gamble
company kindly donated these
tampons to the museum, part of a
large gift.
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NEXT: the tampon and instructions
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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