Read the main
Hartmann page and see similar early U.K.
towels (menstrual pads) by Southall and Mosana.
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THE MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND
WOMEN'S HEALTH
Early disposable menstrual napkin
(towels): Hartmann
Ads from the United Kingdom, 1890s
Read the main
Hartmann page and see similar
early U.K. towels (menstrual pads) by
Southall
and Mosana.
Women could buy the first
widely successful American
disposable menstrual pad in 1921 - Kotex.
In America Curads (which sells
bandages today) advertised a disposable
pad in Vogue magazine at least
by 1920 (and later), and Johnson and
Johnson made Lister's
Towels in 1896, which lasted
until at least the mid-1920s.
I thank the
Web site sensationpress.com, a good source of
Victorian pulp fiction and other
Victoriana, for allowing me to use
their scans of these ads!
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Below:
from a paperback novel published by
Hansom Cab Company, about 1888.
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Below:
from a yellowback book published by
Routledge in 1892.
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Below:
from a magazine published in 1894.
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Read the main Hartmann page
and see similar early U.K. towels (menstrual
pads) by Southall
and Mosana.
Washable pads
- Menstrual sponge
- Swedish advertisement for a belt and pad and
adhesive pad
Suspenders for
holding pads (U.S.A., 19th century)
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