Holly-Pax, Modern Insertion Type Sanitary Protection, Sample Package with Mailer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1945
notes: label: Description
content: Light and dark purple cardboard box with silhouette of a woman in heels and a skin-tight outfit. The box contains two individual cellophane-wrapped tampons. (Box appears to have originally contained three tampons.) Printed on top of box: "Holly-Pax / Guaranteed by / Good Housekeeping / As Advertised Therein;" and on the other side, "Accepted for advertising by the Journal of the American Medical Association." Printed on one edge of box: "Created In Hollywood / For the Fastidious Woman;" and the other: "Invisible - Secure / No Pins - No Pads - No Belts - No Odor." "Sample" is stamped in black ink on one end of the box. Included with the box is one (1) manila mailing envelope with adhesive paper address label (postmarked July 26, 1945, Spangsville, PA), and two (2) folded paper leaflets. One leaflet, "Directions for Using Holly-Pax Economy tampon," appears to have been included inside the box. The second leaflet, "Holly-Pax, Created for Glamorous Hollywood Stars and You," may have been loose in the mailing envelope with the small sample box of tampons. Made by Universal Cotton Products Corporation, Palms Station, Hollywood, Calif. Printed on one edge of box: "Created In Hollywood / For the Fastidious Woman;" and the other: "Invisible - Secure / No Pins - No Pads - No Belts - No Odor."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Los Angeles, Hollywood
topic: label: Subject
content: Menstruation
label: Subject
content: Movie
label: Subject
content: Women's Health
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Menstruation: Tampons
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content: Menstruation: Odor
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Linda Lacy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2023.0066.01
label: catalog number
content: 2023.0066.01
label: accession number
content: 2023.0066
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tampons
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: box: 1.5 cm x 6.5 cm x 4.8 cm; 19/32 in x 2 9/16 in x 1 7/8 in
label: Measurements
content: mailer: 8.5 cm x 16.2 cm; 3 11/32 in x 6 3/8 in