From the same company, tampons: Meds (U.S.A.
and elsewhere, box and tampon, 1967,
Personal Products Company) - Meds (box
& tampons, 1940s-1950s?)
- pamphlet
introducing Meds to the world (1930s) -
Meds box & tampons, 1970, New Zealand
- 1941 ad -
Personal Digest
leaflets, which sometimes have
information about Meds (1966-67) - 1967 ad -
undated instructions here and here. - Australian ad,
1950s
From
the same company, sanitary napkins
(pads):
Modess (Johnson
& Johnson, Personal Products Co.,
U.S.A.) 1927 Gilbreth
report to Johnson & Johnson about
Modess - newspaper ads 1927-28 - "Silent Purchase"
ad, June 1928 - ad, 1928 -
"Modernizing Mother" ads: #1, February
1929 ("Mother . .
. don't be quaint"); #3 April 1929
("Don't weaken,
Mother"); #5, June 1929 ("Never mind,
Mother, you'll learn") - ad about
concealing pad, 1930 - ad compared
with Kotex ad, 1931 - ad, 1931 - wrapped Modess pad
for dispenser, 1930s? - Ad, U.K., 1936
- True or False?
ad in The American Girl magazine,
January 1947 - actress Carol Lynley in
"How shall I tell my daughter?" booklet
ad (1955) - Australian
ad, 1957 - ad
(1956) with "Modess . . . . because" ad
incorporated into it - ad for
"Growing Up and Liking It" booklet
(1963, Modess) - - Modess
. . . . because ads (many dates) -
ad with baby, 1969: "She knows as much
about sanitary napkins as you do."
- French
ad, 1970s? - ad,
French, 1972, photo by David Hamilton -
Personal Digest
leaflets (7), 1966-67: describe
Modess products - How
Modess Sanitary Napkins Began:
excerpts from"A Company That Cares: One
Hundred Year Illustrated History of
Johnson and Johnson"
From the
same company, booklets for boys &
girls:
Boys: Have
you wondered what happens when girls
grow up? (complete
pamphlet, Personal Products Co.,
1973) Quick lessons for probably only
mildly interested boys.
Essence of
Womanhood (complete
booklet, 1959, Personal Products
Corp., Modess tampons, U.S.A.)
Growing Up
and Liking It (complete
booklets: 1944,
1949, 1957, 1963, 1964, 1970, 1972, 1976, 1978, 1991. The
Personal Products Company, U.S.A.) (many
covers,
1944-1991)
How shall I
tell my daughter? [How Shall I Tell My
Daughter? in the 1954 edition
& Daughter in
1969] (complete booklets, 1954, 1963, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1981, Personal
Products Co.) See covers of Modess
booklets. Excerpt
about how to fasten a pad to a belt and
about sanitary panties & a funny
story from the 1969 booklet.
Nancy's
Biggest Day at Camp (complete booklet,
1941, Modess menstrual pads, U.S.A.)
Nancy's biggest day was learning about
menstruation at summer camp, not having
her first period there unless the
company just didn't want to discuss
that. No discussion of tampons, which
Modess also made, probably because many
people thought they would turn a virgin
into a fallen wom-, er, girl, a problem
Tampax discussed in an ad. Black and
white. Generous gift from an
anonymous donor!
[The]
Periodic Cycle (complete booklet,
1938, The Personal Products Corp.,
U.S.A., maker of Modess pads) The
booklet states that this is for older
teenage girls, and is probably a
companion to What
a trained nurse wrote to her young
sister, below.
Sally and
Mary and Kate Wondered . . . (complete booklet,
cover,
1956, Personal Products Corp., U.S.A.)
Strictly
Feminine (complete booklet
with an actual letter from a mother to
her daughter's doctor - 1969, Personal
Products Co. [Modess], U.S.A.)
MORE
booklets, pads, tampons
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Menstruation and Women's Health
Modess
flexible tampons
Newspaper ad, full
page, black and white
Springfield Union
(Massachusetts, U.S.A.),
p. 26
30 November 1956
Introduction to the
ballet ads.
Tampons and dancers go
way back - well, to the
1930s
anyway when we're
talking commercial
tampons. Ancient
Egyptians knew
tampons at least as a
way to put
medicine into
the body.
Bet
me: tampons go
back much further than
that!
This ad formed part of a
series
of Modess flexible
tampon ads that
Tambrands donated to the
museum.
Johnson & Johnson,
which made Modess,
created one of the
earliest commercial
tampons, Meds,
and I created a cat
called Meds. Of
course not, cats create
themselves without
outside help.
Thank
you, Tambrands (the
former maker of Tampax)
for this ad, part of a large
gift of menstrual
products from your
archives!!
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Below:
The black-and-white newspaper ad
measures
23" tall (58.4 cm). Someone at
Tambrands wrote
Springfield
Union 11/30/56 (/56 is
in red pencil,
the rest in blue ink) at the top. And
Tampax hands
folded the page twice probably to make
it fit into
its folder, which the company sent me
chock full.
Enlargements of
the small text lie below the
full ad.
Isn't it curious that a jumping woman
should appear
in a newspaper of the city where basketball
was invented?
OK, it's a slow day but I
was impressed.
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Below:
I enlarged 2 sections of the ad. Blame
the fuzziness
at right on my crummy camera. Oxidation
darkened the
paper (and will eventually destroy
it), which I lightened in
the section at right.
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End | 1958
Modess flexible tampon ad (The
New York Times)
Sally
and Mary and Kate Wondered .
. . (complete
booklet, cover,
1956, Personal Products Corp.,
Modess, U.S.A.)
Strictly
Feminine (complete
booklet with an actual
letter from a mother to her
daughter's doctor - 1969,
Personal Products Co.
[Modess], U.S.A.)
Pamphlet
introducing Meds tampons
to the world (1930s), the
Modess tampon predecessor.
The pamphlet does NOT
introduce the cat
of the same name to the
world!
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