And see the applicator
Pursettes tampon with lubricated applicator
and tampon.
See early tampoms Wix
and B-ettes 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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Dale trial-size box
lubricated menstrual tampons (1930s-1940s?,
U.S.A.)
Introduction, box, and
a newspaper ad from 1944 (see the regular Dale)
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As I said on the main Dale
page, Dale typifies
American tampons from the 1930s
and 1940s in the lack of an
applicator, one version of which
Tampax patented in the 1930s,
although at least one other
applicator tampon existed from
the era (Lox
theatrical tampons).
Addressing point by point many
of the objections women had to
pads and tampons - read a doctor's
list of complaints in
Consumer Reports from 1945 - the
instructions could indicate a
1940s date for the box, as
problems would have had time to be
publicly addressed by that time.
From the
1950s to the 1970s women could
buy another tampon with a
lubricated tip in the U.S.A., Pursettes. That company
also made one with a lubricated
applicator as well as a
tip.
The Procter & Gamble
company kindly donated these
tampons to the museum, part of a
large gift.
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Below:
The cardboard box measures 3 x 2
5/16 x 3/4" (7.6 x 5.8 x 1.9 cm).
It looks as if tape had once
adhered to the box.
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Wouldn't it be neat if were
intended for the Lindbergh baby
kidnapping trial?
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A previous owner (Procter &
Gamble?) wrote on a long side of
the box.
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The other side.
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Below:
The same
hand wrote on the
end flap!
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Below:
Open the end flaps and instead of
tampons you see the side of a
cardboard box - the
drawer.
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Below:
Pull the drawer out to reveal a single
fluffed-up tampon and no instructions
(See the regular size box instructions).
Grave
robbers à la King Tut
struck years ago - at Procter
& Gamble?
The fluffing up might mean that
someone examined it - and maybe
that person performed the
suggested water
test with at least one of
the missing three 'pons.
A drawer also held the tampons in
the regular
Dale just as it did with
Wix tampons.
Just occurred to me: could the
unnecessary drawer mean this box
dated before
rationing saved raw
materials in World War II?
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Below:
The tampon string emerged
wrapped around what looks
like the cellophane
wrapper.
The string
stretches about 6 1/4"
(about 16 cm) from its end
to the edge of the tampon.
The yellow
tip is much smaller
than the lubrication
on the tip of the
regular box tampons.
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Below:
The yellow
lubricated
tip of the
tampon.
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End
From the 1950s to the
1970s women could buy another
lubricated tampon in the U.S.A., Pursettes. See early tampons
Wix and B-ettes and a bunch of other
earlier ones.
Tampon directory
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