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
Read Modess pads history
What did women do about menstruation in the past?
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? |
Email the museum |
Privacy on this site |
Who runs this museum?? |
Amazing women! |
Art of menstruation (and awesome ancient art of menstruation) |
Artists (non-menstrual) |
Asbestos |
Belts |
Bidets |
Birth control and religion |
Birth control drugs, old |
Birth control douche & sponges |
Founder bio |
Bly, Nellie |
MUM board |
Books: menstruation & menopause (& reviews) |
Cats |
Company booklets for girls (mostly) directory |
Contraception and religion |
Contraceptive drugs, old |
Contraceptive douche & sponges |
Costumes |
Menstrual cups |
Cup usage |
Dispensers |
Douches, pain, sprays |
Essay directory |
Examination, gynecological (pelvic) (short history) |
Extraction |
Facts-of-life booklets for girls |
Famous women in menstrual hygiene ads |
FAQ |
Feminine napkin, towel, pad directory |
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, towel, napkin directory |
Patent medicine |
Poetry directory |
Products, some current |
Puberty booklets for girls and parents|
Religion |
Religión y menstruación |
Your remedies for menstrual discomfort |
Menstrual products safety |
Sanitary napkin, towel, pad directory |
Seguridad de productos para la menstruación |
Science |
Shame |
Slapping, menstrual |
Sponges |
Synchrony |
Tampon directory |
Early tampons |
Teen ads directory |
Tour of the former museum (video) |
Towel, pad, sanitary napkin directory |
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 |
Read 10 years (1996-2006) of articles and Letters to Your MUM on this site.
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 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


Introduction & first page.

I thank the former college teacher who has donated so much to this museum (example) for this book!

Below: Page 11. K-C built a company town around its paper mill in 1889.


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
Read Modess pads history. What did women do about menstruation in the past?

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