See o.b. booklets: Volwassen
worden ("Growing up," the
Netherlands, excerpts,
2004, o.b. tampons)
[Die] Menstruation (excerpts, 1977,
o.b. tampons, Germany)
See an actual o.b.
tampon from the 1970s
- More o.b. stuff in the tampon directory
Tampax Junior tampons, late 1930s-1940s
Tampax Satin Learner's
Kit (for menstruation), 2001, in 3
languages
Instructions from Tampax about what to
tell customers, 1936
Tampax "Educational
Material on Menstruation," 1966
Booklets
menstrual hygiene companies made for girls,
women and teachers - patent
medicine - a list
of books and articles about menstruation - videos
See a Kotex ad
advertising a Marjorie May booklet.
See many more similar booklets.
See ads for
menarche-education booklets: Marjorie May's Twelfth
Birthday (Kotex, 1932), Tampax tampons (1970,
with Susan Dey), Personal
Products (1955, with Carol Lynley),
and German o.b.
tampons (lower ad, 1981)
And read Lynn Peril's series about
these and similar booklets!
Read the full text of the 1935 Canadian edition
of Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday, probably
identical to the American edition.
More ads for teens (see also introductory page
for teenage advertising): Are you in the know? (Kotex napkins and Quest
napkin powder, 1948, U.S.A.), Are you in the know? (Kotex napkins and belts,
1949, U.S.A.)Are
you in the know?
(Kotex napkins, 1953, U.S.A.), Are you in the know? (Kotex napkins and belts,
1964, U.S.A.), Freedom (1990, Germany), Kotex (1992, U.S.A.), Pursettes (1974, U.S.A.), Pursettes (1974, U.S.A.), Saba (1975, Denmark)
See early tampons
and a list of tampon
on this site - at least the ones I've
cataloged.
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o.b.
menstrual tampons educational
booklet, "Your Personal
Guide to Menstruation And Tampon
Usage," 1988, U.S.A.
Whole booklet
Back
and front covers
A European
tampon before Johnson &
Johnson took it over in the 1970s,
o.b. stood out in recent America
by having no insertion device, but
most early
American tampons also had no
applicators, so the idea was not
new, just forgotten. Tampax and
its patent on a cardboard
applicator killed most of
its competition in its first
decades, probably even in Europe.
O.b. has made some of the cleverest
and boldest
ads in the industry (although
English products might be the wittiest)
but this booklet is
straighforward, probably the way
such a booklet should be.
Tambrands, the former maker
of Tampax, generously donated
this booklet.
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NEXT covers - 2-3 - 4-5 - 6-7 - 8-9 - 10-11 - 12-13 - 14-15
See an actual o.b.
tampon from the 1970s
- More o.b. stuff in the tampon directory
- Tampax Satin Learner's
Kit (for menstruation), 2001, in 3
languages
Instructions from Tampax about what to tell
customers, 1936 -
See a French and American
Tampax from 1938
Tampax "Educational Material on
Menstruation," 1966
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