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)
Harry
Finley created the images.
What did women do about menstruation in
the past?
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MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S
HEALTH
"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
Below:
Office and factory life was robust at
K-C!
About "The
Office Flapper Sez"
(under Kotex Chicago at top): The
funniest recent flapper mention
(Feb. 6, 2009)
I think is in Andrew Leonard's
heading "When
flappers
roamed the earth" in "How
the World Works"
at
http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/index.html
Flapper:
A young woman, especially one in
the 1920s who showed disdain for
conventional dress and behavior.
(from
http://www.answers.com/topic/flapper)
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