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 Kleenex & Kotex
menstrual napkins (pads), tampons,
panties & napkin belts,
plus puberty booklets
for girls and their mothers, and booklets for women
I thank the former college teacher who has donated
so much to this museum (example)
for this book!
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Below: Page 29. Creped wadding (see it in an early K-C tampon), Cellucotton Products Company,
World War I, Kotex & Kleenex
disposable handkerchief (just as Kotex was a disposable menstrual pad).
The text avoids words directly referring to menstruation
(although everyone knew what Kotex was),
saying "a wartime use for absorbent wadding devised
by Army nurses." I love it. But remember that
this is 1947 and in an industry that men ran. Everyone
talks about menstruation today - right? Ha!
Read the interesting
story of KLEENEX in the last paragraph.
I enlarged the photo on the next
page.
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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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