Marjorie May, three booklets, 1935 main page
See a Kotex ad
advertising this booklet.
See Kotex items: First ad
(1921; scroll to bottom of page) - ad 1928 (Sears and Roebuck
catalog) - Lee
Miller ads (first real person in a
menstrual 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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Pursettes menstrual tampon,
puberty & menarche booklet,
late 1950s?, U.S.A.
Getting
to Know Yourself
Pursettes, a tampon
with a lubricated tip, and no
longer produced, made this booklet
for teenage girls, possibly in the
late 1950s or early 1960.
The Tambrands research
library kindly gave it to MUM.
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Below:
Back (to the left of the staples)
& front covers. Somebody at
Tambrands, the company that made
Tampax, typed the
information on the front cover,
probably showing where an ad for
this booklet appeared.
The closed book measures 4 7/8" x
6 7/8" (about 12.4 x 17.4 cm).
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