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 enlarged,
last (interior) pages - instructions (first page)
The Procter & Gamble company kindly
donated these tampons to the museum, part
of a large gift.
The reader now
has the full back of the sheet
open, and reads down, beginning
right below. The right side of
the page is below the left one,
as they were too wide to put
side by side.
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Below
is the middle section of the
back page.
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Finally,
you see the bottom of the back
page, below.
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END
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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