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 (reduced), and top half, enlarged
We now see what the dealer saw: the
company offered a neat deal. Just sign here.
Compare this pitch to that much flashier
one Modess
offered to dealers decades later.
Procter & Gamble kindly donated the
box and contents as part of a gift of
scores of menstrual products.
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