Marjorie May, three booklets, 1935 main page
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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Menarche and puberty booklets
by Modess menstrual
napkins and tampons
Personal Products Company, which
made Modess menstrual sanitary
pads, also published booklets
explaining menstruation and
puberty for girls and their
parents (mothers), as did other
companies, such as Kimberly-Clark
(Kotex) and Tampax tampons.
See the ad
the teenage Carol
Lynley, later an actress,
made for these booklets, and see
other ads
for menarche-education booklets: Marjorie
May's Twelfth Birthday
(Kotex, 1933), Tampax
tampons (1970, with Susan Dey) and
German o.b.
tampons (lower ad, 1981).
Below are some booklets at MUM
for mothers (not shown in correct
relative size). See also Personal
Digest
and Growing
up and liking it from the
same company, and Lynn Peril's article
about such booklets.
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1968 complete
booklet
(cover's the same but the content
differs slightly from 1963
version)
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