Dutch
booklet for menarcheal girls -
Early Dutch
Tampax ads -
Early Dutch
booklet for
Camelia pads - Dutch exhibit about menstruation, 1982
(article) - Dutch Nefa menstrual pad ads,
1938, 1967 - early brochure for the German Amira
(1950s)
German and French menstrual ads using
nudity.
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The Original Museum
of Menstruation in Harry Finley's House
Basement, 1994-1998, page 2
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On
opening day, Sunday, 31 July 1994,
Finley talked to visitors inside and
outside the picture frame.
The table and wall display
held current alternative menstrual
products. The contemporary small bowl with brown
pad
at the corner near the seated
visitor contained water to soak used
washable pads before washing and
reuse,
continuing a practice
centuries old. (The visitor's
face is fuzzed out to preserve
anonymity; she was a writer for Seventeen
magazine.)
See a century-plus-old
washable
pad that belonged to an
Italian countess.
Photo above courtesy of a
friend of Finley's. Other
photos by Harry Finley
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Fishing line suspended mannequins
wearing underpants
from mid-to-late 20th century
designed to hold pads without a belt.
The French edition of Elle
magazine published a 2-page tampon
ad hanging at right. Those are
tampons tucked
into the
tops of the stockings. The
ad continued to the next two pages
shown on the reverse
of the display. See
another ad for
the same tampon. And I can't resist
showing you this German
plastic shopping bag for the same
tampon.
In 2003 another fashion magazine,
the Italian edition of Marie
Claire, wrote about the
culture of menstruation and this
museum
and its menstrual
art and products. A German
magazine did a similar thing
the following year.
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Kotex created its first
big campaign in 1921.
This hanging display showed many of
its ads and related printed matter (example).
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Opening day,
Sunday
31 July 1994. Harry
Finley talks to people
outside and inside the
frame.
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Mannequins hanging
from fishing line wear
underpants designed to
hold menstrual pads next
to a hanging 4-page ad for
tampons
in the French Elle.
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The first large Kotex
ad
campaign, 1921, on
a hanging display.
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At left, a table
holds 2
mannequins, one wearing
a Kotex belt and pad, the
other a modern washable
belt and pad. At right,
miscellaneous ads
and the end of the
timeline of menstrual
products.
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On the wall, a timeline
of menstrual products.
A mannequin suspended
from the ceiling wears
menstrual underpants.
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A member of the lab
at
Johns Hopkins that
developed
the Instead menstrual cup
donated her Halloween
costume.
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A re-creation of a
1914
Sears, Roebuck menstrual
apron.
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Founder and designer
of
the museum Harry
Finley
stands next to the
menstrual
apron and
diaper cloth
pinned to a clothes line.
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