Some Camelia ads:
1920s (Germany),
1930s
(Germany), 1940/42
(Germany, with underpants made from sugar
sacks, 1945/46), 1952
(Australia), 1970s
(France), 1990
(Germany) - Underpants
directory
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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Page from the Johnson Smith
& Co. catalog, 1928, U.S.A.
Along with language we wouldn't
use and items we wouldn't dare
advertise today, this once-popular
novelty catalog offers samples of
advertising from an era before TV,
the Internet, & video games in
which people had much more time to
read.
Return to the Camelia booklet,
the Netherlands, 1928(?).
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