Marjorie May
booklets for girls:
Complete booklet,
1935, Canada
Cover, mid-1930s,
U.S.A.
Complete booklet,
1938, U.S.A.
Health Facts on
Menstruation, by Lloyd Arnold, M.D.
(here, 1933, Kotex,
U.S.A.)
Later Kotex Wonderform
belts here
A slightly late
Kotex booklet for girls:
As One Girl to Another
(complete booklet,
1940, Kotex, U.S.A.)
More 1930s Kotex
stuff:
1932, Phantom Kotex -
leaflet ad for
Wondersoft pads, belt, Marjorie May's
Twelfth Birthday, 1933 - 1933, Phantom Kotex - box and pads, 1930s?
- wrapped Kotex pad
for West Disinfecting Company dispenser (mid
1930s) - Two ads on a sewing pattern for women's sports trousers,
1930s - "Cooperation,"
publication for Kimberly-Clark employees,
1931-34, jokes, sports, gossip, etc.
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MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S
HEALTH
Cartoon ad
Kotex, 1935, (U.S.A.)
The ad promotes what Kotex and
other companies promote and
promoted for decades: comfort and
absorption. Pads of the
era were not the thin things women
wear today; they were often enormous.
Faces in
ads also differed:
there's no hint of blacks or
Latinos or fat or ugly people.
Menstrual product advertising
would show middle-to-upper class
white women for the next several
decades, often with a certain face.
Blacks are servants.
But this was typical throughout
American publications.
I thank the contributor of
this and many other items!
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Below:
Amazing, isn't it, that the identical scene
with the same kids in the same
clothes
repeats in the third panel even
though the woman sends "Sis" a
present of Kotex,
a process that had to take hours
or days? And "Sis" had to put it
on. These WERE fast times
or at least had fast women.
They dressed so well then.
Read the
booklets discussed at the
end of the text: here (Health Facts on
Menstruation)
and a Marjorie
May booklet probably
similar to this contemporary Canadian
version.
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Below:
Seems
unlikely! Women told me
when the museum was open in my house
that they hardly ever discussed
periods or their gear with one
another. But maybe an earlier era
was different.
See Kotex belts here.
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Below:
I Googled in vain for the illustrator
- signature below, which looks
like Cy Klunok or Klunak.
I suspect he illustrated for many
companies.
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Marjorie May booklets
for girls: Complete
booklet, 1935, Canada - Health Facts on
Menstruation, 1933
Wrapped Kotex pad
for West Disinfecting Company dispenser (mid
1930s)
"Cooperation,"
publication for Kimberly-Clark employees,
1931-34, jokes, sports, gossip, etc.
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