Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.mum.org   See a Pursettes booket for teenagers (late 1950s?). The Pursettes black plastic tote (carrier) with tampons. (An ad sold the tote, and an enthusiastic customer mentions the tote in her testimonial.) Tampax keeps an eye on its competitor Pursettes: Tampax tampon inter-office memo with attached ads, U.S.A., 1964 See ads for Pursettes: September 1972 (letter testimonial) - August 1973 (letter testimonial) - February 1974 (cartoon story) - August 1974 (cartoon story) - October 1974 (cartoon story) - See a 1965 ad for a Pursettes school educational kit - Pursettes Getting to Know Yourself booklet for girls - other teaching booklets: Growing Up and Liking It and How Shall I Tell My Daughter? Want to be a SCHOOLEBRITY in the know? (Huh, you say?) Read Are you in the know? BOOKLET collection of the great pad & etiquette tips for teens Kotex ran for decades (but without the ads) (1956) 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. HOMEPAGE CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could? Some MUM site links: HOMEPAGE | LIST OF ALL TOPICS | MUM address & What does MUM mean? | Email the museum | Privacy on this site | Who runs this museum?? | Amazing women! | Art of menstruation (and awesome ancient art of menstruation) | Artists (non-menstrual) | Asbestos | Belts | Bidets | Birth control and religion | Birth control drugs, old | Birth control douche & sponges | Founder bio | Bly, Nellie | MUM board | Books: menstruation & menopause (& reviews) | Cats | Company booklets for girls (mostly) directory | Contraception and religion | Contraceptive drugs, old | Contraceptive douche & sponges | Costumes | Menstrual cups | Cup usage | Dispensers | Douches, pain, sprays | Essay directory | Examination, gynecological (pelvic) (short history) | Extraction | Facts-of-life booklets for girls | Famous women in menstrual hygiene ads | FAQ | Feminine napkin, towel, pad directory | 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, 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. Pursettes menstrual tampons box of 40, 1960s? Campana Corp., Batavia, Illinois, U.S.A. teenage, women, health, menstruation, no applicator, lubricated tip First page I thank the contributor! Below: The two-sided instructions are a paper sheet measuring 8 x 6 1/8" (20.3 x 15.6 cm). Below: The sheet at right folds so that this is the top page of the instructions, which is the second panel on the bottom row of the folder side immediately to the right. It measures 2 x 3" (about 5 x 7.8 cm).  Below: First side of the whole sheet. At RIGHT is the other side.  Below: The other side Below: Enlargements of the first side of the sheet. I flipped the top row to make it readable. Below: See what happened when I dipped the ancient Dale tampon into water. Below: Like Tampax, Pursettes magically enabled women to swim, the subject of many jokes. "Unmarried girls" means virgins. I can see the baffled girls reading this if it were written today. I measured the diameter of the tip and the text does not lie. A German Tampax booklet also delves into the size of the hole in the hymen, a subject not usually broached - anywhere. Try bringing it up during a wedding reception. Tampax ran an ad about the virginity question.     Below: Enlargement of the other side of the sheet. See another version of the purse container. NEXT | Box tampon Pursettes booket for teenagers (late 1950s?). Pursettes black plastic tote (carrier) with tampons. Tampax tampon inter-office memo about Pursettes with attached ads, 1964 - Are you in the know? BOOKLET collection of the riveting pad & etiquette tips for teens from Kotex (1956) - Many Pursettes ads in the left column Many BOOKLETS - Many more TAMPONS Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.mum.org © 2010 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 [email protected]