Phantom Kotex ad, with ad for
Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday, a menarche
booklet, 1932
Kotex doesn't show! #2: June 1932 - ad,
1932, for Kotex and
Kleenex - Phantom Kotex, July, 1932 -
picture in ad of Mary
Pauline Callender, author of the
Marjorie May booklets - 1932, Phantom Kotex -
1933, Phantom Kotex
- box and pads,
1930s? - wrapped
Kotex pad for West Disinfecting
Company dispenser (mid 1930s)
Harry
Finley created the images.
What did women do about menstruation in
the past?
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MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S
HEALTH
Kimberly-Clark Corporation
"Cooperation" Excerpts
(U.S.A., 1931-34)
Publication for Kimberly-Clark
employees during the Great
Depression
Kotex sanitary napkins, menstrual belts,
Kleenex, puberty booklets for girls, Fibs
menstrual tampons
You think our times are bad?
Read some of the editorial
comments in these pages for and
about Kimberly-Clark's employees
concerning the raging Great Depression,
which of course affected K-C, a
paper manufacture and, of course,
creator of Kotex
menstrual pads as well as perhaps
the earliest
menstrual tampons, the
famous puberty booklets
for girls, menstrual belts - and
Kleenex
among many products.
As one editorial explains,
because companies could not afford
to advertise as much they had to
cut their paper use,
Kimberly-Clark's business.
I show a small selection of the
publications' contents. Most of
the articles and news items are intensely
personal, reporting on
who married whom, bowling teams,
sicknesses and deaths, things
workers in a company would be
interested in.
And jokes.
Hundreds of them. Some are funny.
And none that I saw had any
connection of menstruation unlike
the MUM
collection.
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Below:
P. The hardcover book holding the
1931 issues (a similar book holds
the 1933-34 issues)
measures 8 1/4 x 10 1/2" (20.6 x
26.7 cm).
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Below:
The colors are incorrect but you
can read the above cover.
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Below:
The cover for most of the
articles that follow.
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Below:
the only cover that I find
beautiful;
most were like the cover
at left. The issues
switched to every 3 months
probably because of the
Depression.
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Below:
Comments on cooperation from p.
28, May 1931, "Cooperation."
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