See an American pad in a tube, Delicate (after 1943). Pad-n-all, a
combination menstrual pad and belt
(1930s-1940s? U.S.A.)
Lister's
[Sanitary] Towels (U.S.A.,
1890s-1920s?) 4 ads for the first American
disposable pad, by Johnson & Johnson
Read the main Hartmann
page and see similar early U.K. towels
(menstrual pads) by Mosana.
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MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND
WOMEN'S HEALTH
Early disposable menstrual
napkin (towel) for traveling
women: Lilia
(U.K.)
Tube with single pad (1920s-30s?)
Menstruation
and flowers go together, at
least in the commercial world.
Not only did "flowers" refer to
menstruation at one time but an
early German disposable pad took
the name Camelia. And most
menstrual cups resemble a tulip as pointed out
in an ad for an early cup.
Pads in
tubes for traveling women, which
this pad was probably for,
curiously resemble tampons,
commercial versions of which
appeared in the early 1930s, in
America. And the packaging for
early tampons often carried text
describing tampons as sanitary pads
worn internally. The two
devices were about to blend into
one!
See Lil-lets
tampon,
almost the same name, from South
Africa.
See an
American pad in a tube, Delicate (after 1943). See
ads for
earlier American pads in tubes
in a Tourist Set, a package of
menstrual supplies for the
traveling woman.
See Pad-n-all,
a combination menstrual pad and
belt (1930s-1940s? U.S.A.). Ads for
early American compressed pads. Southall's
ads from the United Kingdom,
1888-1913. Lister's
[Sanitary] Towels (U.S.A.,
1890s-1920s?) 4 ads for the first
American disposable pad, by
Johnson & Johnson
Read the main
Hartmann page and see
similar early U.K. towels
(menstrual pads) by Mosana.
I thank
Andrew Smith, Wales, United
Kingdom, for this generous
gift as well as two others!
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Below:
The only end still having
a "plug," a round piece of
cardboard closing it.
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Someone might have tried
to take out the pad before
the donor gave it to MUM
since it lacked the plug
in this end. And that
person might have
experienced what I did: I
could not push or pull the
pad out! Imagine
you're in a public
toilet and desperately
need a pad and the
*!$#*& thing won't
come out! Maybe
it's just because of age.
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Below:
The cardboard tube measures 3 1/4
x 1 5/8" (about 8.3 x 4 cm). I couldn't bring
myself to cut open the tube to
remove the pad.
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