See the fax
                            tampon and the almost identical tampon Nunap
                            sold probably about the same time, both
                            probably made of Cellucotton, the component
                            of Kotex.
                          See other marketing devices: Ad-design contest for
                            menstrual products in the United Kingdom; "Your Image is Your
                              Fortune!," Modess sales-hints booklet
                            for stores, 1967 (U.S.A., donated by
                            Tambrands, 1997)
                          See early tampoms Wix
                            and Dale and a bunch of other
                            earlier ones.
                          
                          See some 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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                          B-ettes menstrual tampon (U.S.A., about
                            1939) 
                            proposal to dealers:
                              page 4, bottom half (the contract)
                          Read the (boring) contract B-ettes offered
                            druggists. (See the whole page, reduced.)
                          
                          End of B-ettes
                              section 
                          Procter & Gamble kindly donated the
                              box and contents as part of a gift of
                              scores of menstrual products.
                          
                             
                              
                                
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