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 3
Next to the Kotex display a
mannequin wearing a Kotex
pad pinned to a belt
sat near one wearing
a
contemporary belt and washable pad.
The contemporary bowl
held used washable pads for
soaking before washing. In the
middle, displays showed bold
advertising from Denmark,
Germany,
(see also the
Netherlands and Sweden)
and, well, not America,
which was (and is)
more conservative than most of
Europe. Even Italy (bottom
of page).
Far right: the beginning of a
timeline showing how menstrual
products developed.
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On the wall a timeline showed
how menstrual products developed
from ancient
Egypt to the present (1994).
Continuing on the wall at right were
ads that famous people appeared in,
for example Olympian
Cathy
Rigby. The suspended mannequin
wore underpants
designed to hold a pad
without a belt (more underpants).
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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 suspended 2-page ad
in the French Elle
for
tampons that continued
on the reverse for another
2 pages.
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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 beginning of a
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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