Phantom Kotex ad, with ad for Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday, a menarche booklet, 1932
Kotex doesn't show! #2: June 1932 - ad, 1932, for Kotex and Kleenex - Phantom Kotex, July, 1932 - picture in ad of Mary Pauline Callender, author of the Marjorie May booklets - 1932, Phantom Kotex - 1933, Phantom Kotex - box and pads, 1930s? - wrapped Kotex pad for West Disinfecting Company dispenser (mid 1930s)
ALL KOTEX PADS, BOOKLETS, TAMPONS, BELTS
Harry Finley created the images.
What did women do about menstruation in the past?
CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could?
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Words and expressions about menstruation |
Would you stop menstruating if you could? |
What did women do about menstruation in the past? |
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Read 10 years (1996-2006) of articles and Letters to Your MUM on this site.
Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación.


MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S HEALTH

Kimberly-Clark Corporation
"Cooperation" Excerpts (U.S.A., 1931-34)
Publication
for Kimberly-Clark employees during the Great Depression
Kotex sanitary napkins, menstrual belts,
Kleenex, puberty booklets for girls, Fibs menstrual tampons


You think our times are bad?

Read some of the editorial comments in these pages for and about Kimberly-Clark's employees concerning the raging Great Depression, which of course affected K-C, a paper manufacture and, of course, creator of Kotex menstrual pads as well as perhaps the earliest menstrual tampons, the famous puberty booklets for girls, menstrual belts - and Kleenex among many products.

As one editorial explains, because companies could not afford to advertise as much they had to cut their paper use, Kimberly-Clark's business.

I show a small selection of the publications' contents. Most of the articles and news items are intensely personal, reporting on who married whom, bowling teams, sicknesses and deaths, things workers in a company would be interested in.

And jokes. Hundreds of them. Some are funny. And none that I saw had any connection of menstruation unlike the MUM collection.

Read how K-C began.


Below: P. The hardcover book holding the 1931 issues (a similar book holds the 1933-34 issues)
measures 8 1/4 x 10 1/2" (20.6 x 26.7 cm).
Below: The colors are incorrect but you can read the above cover.
 
Below: The cover for most of the articles that follow.
Below: the only cover that I find beautiful; most were like the cover at left. The issues switched to every 3 months probably because of the Depression.
   
Below: Comments on cooperation from p. 28, May 1931, "Cooperation."

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Phantom Kotex ad, with ad for Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday, a menarche booklet, 1932
Kotex doesn't show! #2: June 1932 - ad, 1932, for Kotex and Kleenex - Phantom Kotex, July, 1932 - picture in ad of Mary Pauline Callender,
author of the Marjorie May booklets - 1932, Phantom Kotex - 1933, Phantom Kotex - box and pads, 1930s? -
wrapped Kotex pad for West Disinfecting Company dispenser (mid 1930s)
ALL KOTEX PADS, BOOKLETS, TAMPONS, BELTS

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