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Tampax items: American ad from August 1965 - nudity in
an ad: May 1992 (United
Kingdom) - a sign
advertising Tampax during World War II - the
original patent
- an instruction
sheet from the 1930s
See a Modess True or
False? ad in The American Girl magazine,
January 1947, and actress Carol
Lynley in "How Shall I Tell My Daughter"
booklet ad (1955) - Modess
. . . . because ads (many dates).
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Was Tampax the
first French commercial tampon?
Tampax menstrual tampons, 1938, France
and U.S.A.
Boxes: sample, 3
tampons, France, 1938 & U.S.A.,
six pack, 1938
As a bonus I added the boxes below,
also from 1938.
The top one is a French sample with
three tampons; the one below an early
American six-pack.
Tambrands generously donated
these boxes, part of a large gift of
menstrual products from its
archives.
Harry Finley created the images.
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Upper box:
As with the 10-Tampax box, this one
has text saying it was printed in the
U.S.A., from which it was imported.
Again, someone at Tampax wrote the
dates. Cellophane wraps both boxes.
Lower box:
It lacks "Accepted for Advertising by
The Journal of the American Medical
Association," which the 10-Tampax box
has. Tampax eventually took it off all
their boxes after the Association
objected to it, saying it implied
their endorsement.
I show one of the ends of each box
at the bottom.
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The French sample box measures 12.9
x 4.6 x 1.6 cm (about 5" x 2.25 x
0.625") and the six-pack, 13 x 9 x 1.6
cm (c. 5 x 3.625 x 0.625").
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NEXT: typography - boxes, tampons, interior of
directions, exterior
of directions
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Tampax items: See instructions
for the 1936 Tampax - and the box,
etc. See Dutch
Tampax ads from 1938 (and here,
virtually identical to a contemporary
American ad)American ad from August 1965 -
nudity in an ad: May 1992 (United
Kingdom) - a sign
advertising Tampax during World War II
- the original patent -
an instruction
sheet from the 1930s
copyright 2006 Harry Finley
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