See a Swedish tampon dispenser for YOUR home! More about Pursettes: See the Pursettes booket for teenagers (late 1950s?) Pursettes tampon tote. Similar to Dale (1930s-40s) tampons in their lubricated tips Lubricated applicator version (1960-70s?) - Tampon, box, carrier - 3 newspaper ads, 1959 - Tampax inter-office memo about Pursettes ad costs (30 Jan. 1964) - Box of 40 (1960s?) - Ads: 1959, Jan. '64, Feb. '64, 1965, 1972 (testimonial), Feb. 1974, also Feb. 1974, Oct. 1974, undated (1970s?) - Ad offering educational material All tampon directory for this site Pad directory for this site Ads for teenagers directory CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could? Some MUM site links: homepage | MUM address & What does MUM mean? | e-mail the museum | privacy on this site | who runs this museum?? | Amazing women! | the art of menstruation | artists (non-menstrual) | asbestos | belts | bidets | founder bio | Bly, Nellie | MUM board | books: menstruation and menopause (and reviews) | cats | company booklets for girls (mostly) directory | contraception and religion | costumes | menstrual cups | cup usage | dispensers | douches, pain, sprays | essay directory | extraction | facts-of-life booklets for girls | famous women in menstrual hygiene ads | FAQ | founder/director biography | gynecological topics by Dr. Soucasaux | humor | huts | links | masturbation | media coverage of MUM | menarche booklets for girls and parents | miscellaneous | museum future | Norwegian menstruation exhibit | odor | olor | pad directory | patent medicine | poetry directory | products, current | puberty booklets for girls and parents | religion | Religión y menstruación | your remedies for menstrual discomfort | menstrual products safety | science | Seguridad de productos para la menstruación | shame | slapping, menstrual | sponges | synchrony | tampon directory | early tampons | teen ads directory | tour of the former museum (video) | underpants & panties directory | videos, films directory | Words and expressions about menstruation | Would you stop menstruating if you could? | What did women do about menstruation in the past? | washable pads Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación. Plastic box filled with 60 Pursettes tampons (no applicator, 1960s-70s?) (Campana Corp., Batavia, Illinois, U.S.A.) history, tampon, women, menstruation, lubrication Introduction Similar to Dale (1930s-40s) tampons in their lubricated tips lubricated applicator version (1960-70s?) - tampon, box, carrier - 3 newspaper ads, 1959 - Tampax inter-office memo about Pursettes ad costs (30 Jan. 1964) - Box of 40 (1960s?) - ads: 1959, Jan. '64, Feb. '64, 1965, 1972 (testimonial), Feb. 1974, also Feb. 1974, Oct. 1974, undated (1970s?) - ad offering educational material I thank Tambrands, the former company that made Tampax, for this donation from its archives. Below: The second side of the instruction sheet. Pursettes fought the battles that Tampax fought starting in the 1930s and that many tampons fight today, the battles of educating the public about whether tampons can go missing in the vagina, can block the flow, destroy virginity, etc. Tampax produced answers to many questions in the 1950s but had to create ads answering the same questions 40 years later ("Are you sure I'll still be a virgin?," "Are they hard to put in?"). End | Box tampon instructions (front) See the Pursettes booket for teenagers (late 1950s?). Pursettes tampon tote. Lubricated applicator version (1960-70s?) - Box of 40 (1960s?) - lubricated Dale (1930s-40s) tampons - All tampon directory for this site - See a Swedish tampon dispenser for YOUR home! © 2011 Harry Finley. It is illegal to reproduce or distribute any of the work on this Web site in any manner or medium without written permission of the author. Please report suspected violations to hfinley@mum.org