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.)
Tampon
See the box (main
page) and instructions
(with a test for the tampon the user could
perform herself)
The Procter & Gamble company kindly
donated these tampons to the museum, part
of a large gift.
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The tampon appears
out of its cellophane wrapper. I wet the right
end of it with water to see if
that created a lubricant, as
promised in the instructions; yes, it did,
even after possibly 60 years.
The water created the dark spot;
the tip did not expand until I
submerged the whole tampon into
the water, and then only
reluctantly. But it did.
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Below:
The
tampon expanded to its fullest
after about three
minutes in a glass of
water.
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Dry string end
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 Dry
front end
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Left side:
String
end:
Above: Dry and circular,
and in cellophane; Below:
oblong (showing two cylinders of
cotton) and wet.
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Right
side: Business end:
Above:
Dry and circular, and in
cellophane, above; Below:
oblong and wet, showing the white
lubricant, and flat.
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Wet string end
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 Wet
front end
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See the instructions
(with a test for the tampon the user could
perform herself) and box
(main page).
From the 1950s to the
1970s women could buy another lubricated
tampon in the U.S.A., Pursettes.
Tampon
directory
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