See ads for
menarche-education booklets: Marjorie
May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1933), Tampax tampons (1970, with
Susan Dey), Personal
Products (1955, with Carol Lynley), and
German o.b. tampons
(lower ad, 1970s)
And read Lynn Peril's series
about these and similar booklets!
See more 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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Covers for teacher's guides for menarche,
puberty & menstruation,
Modess menstrual napkins & tampons, 1962,
1973, U.S.A.
These manuals came with other
material (for example, the Growing Up and
Liking It booklets; and here's
an ad from
Pursettes for such material) for the
students.
Because of mothers' unwillingness to
teach their daughters about
menstruation, doctors and companies
took over the job, with imperfect
results. Read Lynn
Peril's article about these
booklets.
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Personal Products
(Modess), 1962
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Personal Products
(Modess), 1973
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See ads for
menarche-education booklets: Marjorie
May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1933),
See also the booklets
How shall I tell my
daughter? (Modess, various dates), Growing up and liking it
(Modess,
various dates), and Marjorie
May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1928).
And read Lynn Peril's series
about these and similar booklets!
See another ad for
As One Girl to Another (1942), and the booklet itself.
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