"Tampax tampons invites you to meet 1969's beautiful sales force" Tampax new-ad campaign folder, 1969, U.S.A.; includes 16 glossy copies of new ads. MORE TAMPAX campaign folders Chart: "Standing Female Pelvic Organs" for the Tampax Educational Department, probably mid 1940s - Sculpture of the female pelvis for Tampax Incorporated, used on an educational chart, probably 1940s - "Are Vaginal Tampons Prejudicial to Health?" (Proof for a British Tampax ad, 1952) - "How Times Have Changed: A Manual of Menstruation, Its Purpose, Function and Care," 1950s - Tampax brochure, Germany, probably early 1950s - "No belts. no pins . . . ." ad, 1956(?) - Draghi Detection Tampon (date? but after 1958) for removing cells from vagina to examine for cancer MANY MORE Tampax & tampon items Menstrual pads, towels, napkins on this site 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. HOMEPAGE CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could? Some MUM site links: HOMEPAGE | MUM address & What does MUM mean? | Email the museum | Privacy on this site | Who runs this museum?? | Amazing women! | Art of menstruation (and awesome ancient art of menstruation) | Artists (non-menstrual) | Asbestos | Belts | Bidets | Birth control and religion | Birth control drugs, old | Birth control douche & sponges | Founder bio | Bly, Nellie | MUM board | Books: menstruation & menopause (& reviews) | Cats | Company booklets for girls (mostly) directory | Contraception and religion | Contraceptive drugs, old | Contraceptive douche & sponges | Costumes | Menstrual cups | Cup usage | Dispensers | Douches, pain, sprays | Essay directory | Examination, gynecological (pelvic) (short history) | Extraction | Facts-of-life booklets for girls | Famous women in menstrual hygiene ads | FAQ | Feminine napkin, towel, pad directory | Founder/director biography | Gynecological topics by Dr. Soucasaux | Humor | Huts | Links | Masturbation | Media coverage of MUM | Menarche booklets for girls and parents | Miscellaneous | Museum future | Norwegian menstruation exhibit | Odor | Olor | Pad, towel, napkin directory | Patent medicine | Poetry directory | Products, some current | Puberty booklets for girls and parents| Religion | Religión y menstruación | Your remedies for menstrual discomfort | Menstrual products safety | Sanitary napkin, towel, pad directory | Seguridad de productos para la menstruación | Science | Shame | Slapping, menstrual | Sponges | Synchrony | Tampon directory | Early tampons | Teen ads directory | Tour of the former museum (video) | Towel, pad, sanitary napkin directory | Underpants & panties directory | Videos, films directory | Words and expressions about menstruation | Would you stop menstruating if you could? | What did women do about menstruation in the past? | Washable pads | Read 10 years (1996-2006) of articles and Letters to Your MUM on this site. Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación.

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. Introduction I thank the former Tambrands for donating the book! Below: P. 6. Before Tampax Inc. was formed (1936; the subject of Small Wonder) this very early Tampax box, tampon, instructions appeared; with a newspaper ad from 1934. Origin of the word Tampax: "It was a coined term which I put together from the word tampon and vaginal pack . . . ." A vaginal pack is not a pack of vaginas but a medical treatment, say of cotton with medication, inserted into the vagina. 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 - 1984: name changes to Tambrands - Tambrands goin' good "Tampax tampons invites you to meet 1969's beautiful sales force," Tampax new-ad campaign folder, 1969, U.S.A.; includes 16 glossy copies of new ads. MORE TAMPAX campaign folders Chart: "Standing Female Pelvic Organs" for the Tampax Educational Department, probably mid 1940s - Sculpture of the female pelvis for Tampax Incorporated, used on an educational chart, probably 1940s - "Are Vaginal Tampons Prejudicial to Health?" (Proof for a British Tampax ad, 1952) - "How Times Have Changed: A Manual of Menstruation, Its Purpose, Function and Care," 1950s - Tampax brochure, Germany, probably early 1950s - "No belts. no pins . . . ." ad, 1956(?) - Draghi Detection Tampon (date? but after 1958) for removing cells from vagina to examine for cancer MANY MORE Tampax & tampon items Menstrual pads, towels, napkins on this site © 2010 Harry Finley. It is illegal to reproduce or distribute any of the work on this Web site in any manner or medium without written permission of the author. Please report suspected violations to hfinley@mum.org