Pad (menstrual napkin, towel) directory
Another Kimberly-Clark corporate history, Four Men and a Machine: Commemorating the Seventy-fifth
Anniversary of Kimberly-Clark Corporation (1947)
Corporate history of Tampax: Small Wonder: How Tambrands began, prospered, and grew (1986)

How Modess Sanitary Napkins Began: excerpts from"A Company That Cares: One Hundred Year Illustrated History of Johnson and Johnson"


"Cooperation" Excerpts (U.S.A., 1931-34)
Sometimes funny publication for Kimberly-Clark employees during the Great Depression

See covers of Growing Up and Liking It booklets - ads for teenagers
Read most of a 1928 Australian edition of Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday. Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (1935) - Facts About Menstruation that every Woman should know (1936) - Marjorie May, introductory page, 1935 main page
Read Lynn Peril's series about these and similar booklets! And see the covers of the booklets How shall I tell my daughter?, Growing up and liking it, and Personal Digest; read the whole booklet As One Girl to Another (Kotex, 1940).
Marjorie May, three booklets, 1935 main page
See a Kotex ad advertising this booklet.
See Kotex items: First ad (1921; scroll to bottom of page) - ad 1928 (Sears and Roebuck catalog) - Lee Miller ads (first real person in a menstrual hygiene ad, 1928) - Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (booklet for girls, 1928, Australian edition; there are many links here to Kotex items) - Preparing for Womanhood (1920s, booklet for girls; Australian edition) - 1920s booklet in Spanish showing disposal method - box from about 1969 - "Are you in the know?" ads (Kotex) (1949)(1953)(1964)(booklet, 1956) - See more ads on the Ads for Teenagers main page
CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could?
Some MUM site links:
homepage | MUM address & What does MUM mean? | e-mail the museum | privacy on this site | who runs this museum?? |
Amazing women! | the art of menstruation | artists (non-menstrual) | asbestos | belts | bidets | founder bio | Bly, Nellie | MUM board | books: menstruation and menopause (and reviews) | cats | company booklets for girls (mostly) directory | contraception and religion | costumes | menstrual cups | cup usage | dispensers | douches, pain, sprays | essay directory | extraction | facts-of-life booklets for girls | famous women in menstrual hygiene ads | FAQ | founder/director biography | gynecological topics by Dr. Soucasaux | humor | huts | links | masturbation | media coverage of MUM | menarche booklets for girls and parents | miscellaneous | museum future | Norwegian menstruation exhibit | odor | olor | pad directory | patent medicine | poetry directory | products, current | puberty booklets for girls and parents | religion | Religión y menstruación | your remedies for menstrual discomfort | menstrual products safety | science | Seguridad de productos para la menstruación | shame | slapping, menstrual | sponges | synchrony | tampon directory | early tampons | teen ads directory | tour of the former museum (video) | underpants & panties directory | videos, films directory | Words and expressions about menstruation | Would you stop menstruating if you could? | What did women do about menstruation in the past? | washable pads
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

Four Young Men Go In Search Of A Profit!
The Story of Kimberly-Clark Corporation
(1872-1957)
[By] John R. Kimberly
An address at New York to the Newcomen Society in North America, 1957

Menstruation, Kotex, Cellucotton, menstrual hygiene, history, sanitary napkin, pad

Ten years after Kimberly-Clark Corporation, maker of Kotex and Kleenex, celebrated its 75th anniversary its president sketched the company's history. Read his interesting historical summary below.

You might find especially interesting the company's embarrassment in producing something related to menstruation, so embarrassing that it created a separate company to sell it.  But men ran the operation for decades unlike the early maker of Tampax, a woman (although a man invented Tampax). (Read Tampax's history in detail.)

The difference? K-C made paper of all kinds (read about its products in this pamphlet) whereas Tampax specialized in menstrual products.

Read early articles about Cellucotton, the wadding inside a Kotex pad that the company created.

More about the Newcomen Society on the next page.
First Kotex ad in a magazine (1921; scroll to bottom of page)
Very early newspaper ads.
I thank the donor of the booklet!


Below: Cover (sorry for the quality). The pamphlet, on laid paper (picture at bottom), measures  6 x 9" (15.2 x 22.9 cm).  There are 28 pages inside the heavier covers.



Laid paper shows in the horizontal lines.

NEXT  |  inside fr. cover  - pp. 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 -12 -13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - 21 - 22 - 23 - 24 - 25 - 26 - 27 - 28 - inside bk. cover - back cover
"Cooperation" Excerpts (U.S.A., 1931-34)
Sometimes funny publication for Kimberly-Clark employees during the Great Depression

Pad (menstrual napkin, towel) directory
Another Kimberly-Clark corporate history, Four Men and a Machine: Commemorating the Seventy-fifth
Anniversary of Kimberly-Clark Corporation (1947)
Corporate history of Tampax: Small Wonder: How Tambrands began, prospered, and grew (1986) - (Tampon directory)

How Modess Sanitary Napkins Began: excerpts from"A Company That Cares: One Hundred Year Illustrated History of Johnson and Johnson"

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