Cashay Sanitary Puffs
date: label: date made
content: ca 1934
label: patent date
content: 1934-01-02
name: label: maker
content: Park and Tilford
notes: label: Description
content: Maroon and cream colored cardboard box containing tampons of cotton batting and gauze, each individually wrapped in transparent cellophane. Patent issued to Miriam E. Rabell, Number 1,941,717, filed August 9, 1933, Serial Number 684,320, issued January 2, 1934. Rabell holds several patents for menstrual tampons ("sanitary appliances") dating from 1934 to 1947.
label: Description
content: The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: "Cashay - the moden internal sanitary protection for the menstrual period. Cashay is hailed as the miracle invention. No wonder! It has at last freed women from discomfort, embarrassment and social-inactivity during their "difficult days". Cashay, worn internally, eliminates chafing bulging pads, hot binding belts, offensive tell-tale odors. Cashay brings the new freedom demanded by modern women!"
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Health
label: Subject
content: Menstruation
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Menstruation: Odor
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content: Beauty and Hygiene Products: Feminine Care
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content: Beauty and Health
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0883.212
label: accession number
content: 1978.0883
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0883.212
label: patent number
content: US1941717A
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tampons
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gauze (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cord (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (packaging material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/8 in x 7 1/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 13.0175 cm x 18.415 cm x 3.175 cm