Read the main Hartmann page and see similar early U.K. towels (menstrual pads) by Southall and Mosana. Washable pads - Menstrual sponge - Swedish advertisement for a belt and pad and adhesive pad Suspenders for holding pads (U.S.A., 19th century) Ads for the Kotex stick tampon (U.S.A., 1970s) - a Japanese stick tampon from the 1970s. Early commercial tampons - Rely tampon - Meds tampon (Modess) CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could? Some MUM site links: homepage | MUM address & What does MUM mean? | e-mail the museum | privacy on this site | who runs this museum?? | Amazing women! | the art of menstruation | artists (non-menstrual) | asbestos | belts | bidets | founder bio | Bly, Nellie | MUM board | books: menstruation and menopause (and reviews) | cats | company booklets for girls (mostly) directory | contraception and religion | costumes | menstrual cups | cup usage | dispensers | douches, pain, sprays | essay directory | extraction | facts-of-life booklets for girls | famous women in menstrual hygiene ads | FAQ | 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 directory | patent medicine | poetry directory | products, current | puberty booklets for girls and parents | religion | Religión y menstruación | your remedies for menstrual discomfort | menstrual products safety | science | Seguridad de productos para la menstruación | shame | slapping, menstrual | sponges | synchrony | tampon directory | early tampons | teen ads directory | tour of the former museum (video) | 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 Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación. THE MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S HEALTH Early disposable menstrual napkin (towels): Hartmann Ads from the United Kingdom, 1890s Read the main Hartmann page and see similar early U.K. towels (menstrual pads) by Southall and Mosana. Women could buy the first widely successful American disposable menstrual pad in 1921 - Kotex. In America Curads (which sells bandages today) advertised a disposable pad in Vogue magazine at least by 1920 (and later), and Johnson and Johnson made Lister's Towels in 1896, which lasted until at least the mid-1920s. I thank the Web site sensationpress.com, a good source of Victorian pulp fiction and other Victoriana, for allowing me to use their scans of these ads! All scans and information come from sensationpress.com Below: from a paperback novel published by Hansom Cab Company, about 1888.    Below: from a yellowback book published by Routledge in 1892.    Below: from a magazine published in 1894.   Read the main Hartmann page and see similar early U.K. towels (menstrual pads) by Southall and Mosana. Washable pads - Menstrual sponge - Swedish advertisement for a belt and pad and adhesive pad Suspenders for holding pads (U.S.A., 19th century) © 2006 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 hfinley@mum.org