See a Kotex ad advertising a Marjorie May
booklet.
See many more similar booklets.
Read most of a 1928 Australian edition of
the Kotex booklet Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday, and read three
mid-1930s booklets by Kotex, including a much-changed version of Marjorie
May's twelfth Birthday.
Read the whole menarche booklet As One Girl to
Another (Kotex, 1940).
See more Kotex items: First ad
(1921) - ad 1928 (Sears and Roebuck catalog)
- Lee Miller ads (first real person in amenstrual
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
 
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Photo of Mary Pauline
Callender, author of
Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday, puberty
and menstruation booklets for Kotex, etc.
Mrs. Callender [short biography] is credited with writing probably the first Kotex menarche-education
booklets for girls and their mothers (start
here to see several examples).
Mrs. Callender might also be the first named actual
person in a menstrual-hygiene ad in the United States; see the first pictured one.
The ad in which this appears is at the bottom of the page. There is
no date, but it looks like it's from the 1930s.
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This site has several Marjorie May booklets, for example,
here.
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The ad is undated, but it looks as if it's from the 1930s.
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Read most of the 1928 Kotex booklet Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday, and all
of these Kotex booklets (mid 1930s):
Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday, Marjorie May Learns
About Life, and Facts About Menstruation that every Woman should know.
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