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Visit the ODOR page.
ALL TAMPONS on this site.
HOMEPAGE
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MUM address & What does MUM mean? |
Email the museum |
Privacy on this site |
Who runs this museum?? |
Amazing women! |
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Birth control drugs, old |
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Company booklets for girls (mostly) directory |
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Costumes |
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Essay directory |
Examination, gynecological (pelvic) (short history) |
Extraction |
Facts-of-life booklets for girls |
Famous women in menstrual hygiene ads |
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Founder/director biography |
Gynecological topics by Dr. Soucasaux |
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Links |
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Menarche booklets for girls and parents |
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Museum future |
Norwegian menstruation exhibit |
Odor |
Olor |
Pad, towel, napkin directory |
Patent medicine |
Poetry directory |
Products, some current |
Puberty booklets for girls and parents|
Religion |
Religión y menstruación |
Your remedies for menstrual discomfort |
Menstrual products safety |
Sanitary napkin, towel, pad directory |
Seguridad de productos para la menstruación |
Science |
Shame |
Slapping, menstrual |
Sponges |
Synchrony |
Tampon directory |
Early tampons |
Teen ads directory |
Tour of the former museum (video) |
Towel, pad, sanitary napkin directory |
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 |
Read 10 years (1996-2006) of articles and Letters to Your MUM on this site.
Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación.

The Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health

vams menstrual tampon
(1948, U.S.A.)
Instructions

First page.

All tampons, pads, belts, bidets, miscellaneous, puberty booklets, art, underpants, teen ads
MORE in column at left.
More American tampons from the 1930s & 40s:
EZO, Holly-Pax, L&F, Lotus, LOX, Meds, Nappons, Sa-tips, Secret, Sta-Pacs
Procter & Gamble kindly donated the unopened box.

Below: The 3-panel instruction sheet on thin glossy paper measures
7 3/4 x 4 1/2" (19.8 x 14.4 cm) when opened, as shown.
When folded (as it was in the box), the far-right panel forms the cover and the
middle panel the back.
Below: The bottom text from the middle panel, above, which gives a coyright date
and at least a rough date for this box.
Copyrights and dates on early American tampon boxes and contents are rare. I
suspect many applicator tampons were not copyrighted or patented because of the Tampax patent.
 
Below: The other side of the instructions. See the enlarged illustrations below.
 

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More American tampons from the 1930s & 40s:
EZO, Holly-Pax, L&F, Lotus, LOX, Meds, Nappons, Sa-tips, Secret, Sta-Pacs
All tampons, pads on MUM

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