Booklets
menstrual hygiene companies made for girls,
women and teachers - patent
medicine - a list
of books and articles about menstruation
See early tampons
and a list of tampons
on this site - at least the ones I've
cataloged.
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Small
Wonder:
How Tambrands began, prospered,
and grew
soft-cover book, 48 pages,
1986, U.S.A.
Company/corporate history of
Tambrands, maker of Tampax
menstrual tampons, sanitary
napkins, Draghi cancer detection
tampons, etc.
menstruation, women, health,
menstrual cycle, period, tampon,
corporate history, pad
sanitary napkin
I thank the former Tambrands
for donating the book!
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Below:
P. 3. The beginning of the text. First section,
"A catamenial device."
The writer's name stands at the
bottom of the page. No copyright,
trademark
or publisher's information appears
anywhere in the book. The name of
the
firm that designed the book
appears at the botton of the last page.
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NEXT | cover - first ad (picture)
(1936) - "a catamenial device": early Tampax history
- Ellery Mann organizes Tampax Inc. -
Tampax Inc. begins
- Tampons danger to
morality - how to sell Tampax - 3
kinds of Tampax ads
- first Tampax
ad (analysis) -
Playtex
innovations - early investors
- making Tampax
- 1937: ads expensive,
losses - success,
ads key - Tampax expands,
buys competitors - Tampax loses applicator
lawsuit, Medipax fails - Tampax women
"demonstrators" - NY
World's Fair,
educational dept. starts - medical studies - improving cotton
& machinery - heating
tampons - Tampax goes to war (WW II) -
Tampax moves to
Palmer, Mass. (1942) - how to wrap Tampax? - soaring sales in
WW II - putting the
little tube inside
the big one -
the Tampax family
- cheating the
company - boss a big
joker - 1946: drug-trade miracle - success &
Hurricane Diana -
shortcomings - losing market to
Playtex & Rely tampons - TSS: toxic shock
syndrome - Tampax recovers & diversifies
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1984: name changes to Tambrands -
Tambrands goin' good
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