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Tampax Junior
menstrual tampon, 1939-40,
U.S.A., (page 1) with the contemporary
Regular
(1938) and Super
(1939) tampons
Tampax, the first tampon with an
applicator (early 1930s; read a short
history), and the first really
successful tampon, expanded its
offering by introducing the less
absorbent Junior tampon and more
absorbent Super 'pon in 1939,
according to Small
Wonder: How Tambrands began,
prospered and grew, the
company's commissioned history
published in the mid-1980s.
On this page you'll find the Super
and Junior from 1939 and a Regular
from 1938. The following pages show
the Junior from one year later; that
box was already open and I avoided
opening the 1939 container, which has
the same box features.
On the junior box you'll find "for the waning
days," which brought a laugh from
a woman co-worker in the Pentagon.
In 1997 Tambrands, the then-maker
of Tampax, gave these boxes to this
museum as part of an amazing gift
of 450 boxes of tampons dating to
the founding of the second Tampax
company, 1936, plus hundreds of
other items.
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Below:
This might be the first Junior Tampax,
which debuted in 1939. All box pencil
markings come from Tampax people,
probably in the late 1930s and early
1940s. The box measures 5" x
2 1/2" x 1" (12.8 x 6.5 x 2.5 cm).
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Below:
For the Regular we get a measurement
of, um, lessee, 5" x 3 1/8" x 5/8" (13
x 7.9 x 1.7 cm).
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Below:
Finally, the Super measures 5 1/8" x 3
3/8" x 1 3/8" (13 x 8.5 x 3.3 cm). You can barely see
them but the pencil markings
read "1-9-40" at top right and
"12-4-39-Lot 15" above the words Super
Tampax.
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