Possibly
the first American disposable pad: Lister's Towels
Early Midol
ads for headache, hiccups, and PMS.
See a prototype
of the first Kotex ad.
See more Kotex items: Ad
1928 (Sears and Roebuck
catalog) - Marjorie
May's Twelfth Birthday (booklet for girls,
1928, Australian edition; there are many links
here to Kotex items) - 1920s booklet in Spanish
showing disposal
method - box
from about 1969 - Preparing
for
Womanhood (1920s, booklet for girls) - "Are
you in the know?" ads (Kotex) (1949)(1953)(1964)(booklet, 1956) - See
more ads on the Ads for
Teenagers main page
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The Museum of Menstruation and Women's
Health
Early
ads for American menstrual pads,
belts, aprons, diapers
Gotham & Venus compressed
sanitary napkins, Pen-Co-Nap,
Kleinert, Merco, Sorbit diapers
Newspapers, U.S.A.
I thank the industrious retired
teacher and genealogist for sending
these scans and many others!
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Below:
from the Trenton [New Jersey] Evening
Times, Aug. 14, 1916. I suspect that
the Gotham and Venus pads were of
paper to be burned or tossed or
flushed; washing cloth pads was a
problem for women traveling. See an
actual later
Venus compressed pad, maybe the
same one. See a sanitary apron.
See some menstrual
belts.
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Below:
ad from Appleton [Wisconsin]
Post Crescent, Feb. 11, 1929.
J.C. Penney, which operates
today, sold its own brand of
menstrual pads just as Sears
and probably many other stores
did.
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Below:
from the Fort Wayne [Indiana]
News, Aug. 30, 1912. If there can
be paper diapers, paper
menstrual pads can't be far
behind, which of course was
the case. See sanitary
bloomers possibly based on
children's diapers.
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Below:
from the Oakland [California]
Tribune, May 22, 1919.
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See possibly
the first American disposable pad: Lister's Towels - Early Modess ads:
newspaper, 1928, 1931,"Modess . . . .
because" ads, the French
Modess, and the German "Freedom"
(Kimberly-Clark) for teens. Early Midol ads
for headache, hiccups, and PMS. Other Modess ads:
another from 1928,
1931,"Modess . . . .
because" ads, the French
Modess,
and the German "Freedom"
(Kimberly-Clark) for teens.
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