Booklets
menstrual hygiene companies made for girls,
women and teachers - patent
medicine - a list
of books and articles about menstruation
See early tampons
and a list of tampons
on this site - at least the ones I've
cataloged.
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Small
Wonder:
How Tambrands began, prospered,
and grew
Soft-cover book, 48 pages,
1986, U.S.A.
Company/corporate history
of Tambrands, maker of Tampax
menstrual tampons, sanitary
napkins, Draghi cancer detection
tampons, Valex baby panties,
Maxithins external pads, First
Response home diagnostic kit,
etc.
Tambrands, the maker of Tampax
from 1936 to 1997 (but not the
first maker), probably
commissioned this beautiful book
to give to business partners,
company employees, and interested
parties in 1986 (and beyond), the
company's 50th anniversary.
The author is listed at the
bottom of p. 3 but no copyright,
trademark or publisher information
graces the pages. You'll not find
an index, sources for information
or bibliography. It reads as if
the writer did interview Tampax
luminaries and comb the company
archives.
With that in mind read the
well-written and hardly boring
history of one of the makers of
what Consumer Reports called one
of the "50 small
wonders and big deals
that revolutionized the lives of
consumers" - the tampon.
See a Tiffany
bowl also celebrating the
50th anniversary of Tampax Inc.
and Tambrands.
I thank the former
Tambrands for donating the
book!
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Below:
The thick paper cover measures 9
1/2 x 11" (24 x 27.7 cm).
The art
deco style cover seems to
reflect the design atmosphere of
1936,
the year Tampax Incorporated
started.
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NEXT | cover - first ad (picture)
(1936) - "a catamenial device": early Tampax history
- Ellery Mann organizes Tampax Inc. -Tampax Inc. begins
- Tampons danger to
morality - how to sell Tampax - 3
kinds of Tampax ads
- first Tampax
ad (analysis) - Playtex
innovations - early investors
- making Tampax
- 1937: ads expensive,
losses - success,
ads key - Tampax expands, buys
competitors - Tampax loses applicator
lawsuit, Medipax fails - Tampax women
"demonstrators" - NY
World's Fair, educational dept. starts
- medical studies
- improving
cotton & machinery - heating tampons -
Tampax goes to war
(WW II) - Tampax moves
to Palmer, Mass. (1942) - how to wrap Tampax? - soaring sales in
WW II - putting the
little tube inside the big one - the Tampax family - cheating the
company - boss a big
joker - 1946: drug-trade miracle - success &
Hurricane Diana -
shortcomings - losing market to
Playtex & Rely tampons - TSS: toxic shock
syndrome - Tampax recovers & diversifies
- 1984: name changes to Tambrands -
Tambrands goin' good
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