See a
massive amount
of Kotex information, ads, etc., including
the first Kotex ad campaign
(1921) - a Kotex prototype
("To Save Men's Lives Science
Discovered Kotex,") for the first ad, about
1920 - first newspaper ad? (1920)
and early newspaper ads - early
newspaper articles about Kotex and Cellucotton
What did women do about menstruation in the past?
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MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S HEALTH
Four Men and a Machine:
Commemorating the Seventy-fifth
Anniversary of Kimberly-Clark Corporation
(1947)
Company-produced history of Kimberly-Clark, a
paper-making company
in Wisconsin, which invented and makes Kotex
Kotex and
anti-aircraft guns? Kimberly-Clark
made both?
Yup.
I didn't know it either until I read this
company history the corporation produced.
But I'm sure you're more interested in
learning how it developed Kotex and Kleenex
and many other products starting with K. Is that K from Mr.
Kimberly's name (as well from the same sound from Mr. Clark's)?
Read on!
And see excerpts from the K-C employees
publication Cooperation
from the early 1930s.
I thank the former
college teacher who has donated so much to
this museum (example) for this book!
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Below: Cover,
title page, & foreword. The hard cover measures
7 3/4 x 10" (19.5 x 25.4 cm).
The worn image
interrupting the horizontal lines at top is
that of the four men of the title (I think).
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Below:
Reduced version of the title page. The
date and publisher are missing in the book.
I surmised the date (1947) from the second paragraph of the
foreword, bottom of this Web page.
I eliminated the wide
margins on every page to reduce
file size.
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Below: Page
1. Each page measures 7 1/2 x 9 7/8" (19.2 x
25 cm).
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NEXT | Chapter 1 (prelude, start of
company [1874], Indians, etc.) Photo
of office,
1880 Photos (Neenah, Wisconsin,
1884, 1947) Chart (product
diversification) Chapter 2:
The 2d 25 years
Introduction of scientific
methods "Fluffy paper
wadding"=Cellucotton=Kotex (and Kleenex) Kleenex, Kotex from
Cellucotton
Chapter 3: The 3rd 25 years
1. Creped wadding Kotex display at retailers
display, 1926 2. Financing
rapid growth
3. Growth in the
Depression years 4. Production
for war 5. Postwar
expansion 6. One crop to
a century
Photo of Board of Directors
(not a woman to be seen)
See a massive amount of Kotex
information, ads, etc., including
the first Kotex ad campaign
(1921) - a Kotex prototype
("To Save Men's Lives Science
Discovered Kotex,")
for the first ad, about 1920 - first newspaper ad? (1920) and early newspaper ads
- early newspaper articles
about Kotex and Cellucotton
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in any manner or medium without written permission of
the author. Please report suspected
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