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 Kotex
menstrual napkins (pads), tampons,
panties & napkin belts,
plus puberty booklets
for girls and their mothers, and booklets for women
Kotex and anti-aircraft guns? Kimberly-Clark
made both?
Yup.
I didn't know it either until I read this company history the corporation
produced.
But I'm sure you're more interested in learning how it developed Kotex
and Kleenex and many other products starting with K.
Is that K from Mr. Kimberly's name (as well
from the same sound
from Mr. Clark's)?
Read on!
And see excerpts from the K-C employees publication Cooperation
from the early 1930s.
I thank the former college teacher who has donated
so much to this museum (example)
for this book!
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Below: Cover, title page, & foreword.
The hard cover measures 7 3/4 x 10" (19.5
x 25.4 cm).
The worn image interrupting the horizontal
lines at top is that of the four men of the title (I think).
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Below: Reduced version of the title
page. The date and publisher are missing in the book.
I surmised the date (1947) from the second paragraph
of the foreword, bottom of this Web page.
I eliminated the wide margins on every page
to reduce file size.
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Below: Page 1. Each page measures 7 1/2
x 9 7/8" (19.2 x 25 cm).
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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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of the work on this Web site
in any manner or medium without written permission of the author. Please
report suspected
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