See some Kotex first-campaign ads: general discussion and ad prototype - January 1921 - May 1921 - November 1921
See the Kotex stick tampon.
See more Kotex items: First ad (1921) - ad 1928 (Sears and Roebuck catalog) - Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (booklet for girls, 1928, Australian edition; there are many links here to Kotex items) - 1920s booklet in Spanish showing disposal method - box from about 1969 - Preparing for Womanhood (1920s, booklet for girls) - "Are you in the know?" ads (Kotex) (1949)(1953)(1964)(booklet, 1956) - See more ads on the Ads for Teenagers main page
DIRECTORY of all topics (See also the SEARCH ENGINE, bottom of page.)
CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could?
Some MUM site links: homepage | LIST OF ALL TOPICS | MUM address & What does MUM mean? | e-mail the museum | privacy on this site | who runs this museum?? |
Amazing women! | the art of menstruation | artists (non-menstrual) | asbestos | belts | bidets | founder bio | Bly, Nellie | MUM board | books: menstruation and menopause (and reviews) | cats | company booklets for girls (mostly) directory | contraception and religion | costumes | menstrual cups | cup usage | dispensers | douches, pain, sprays | essay directory | extraction | facts-of-life booklets for girls | famous women in menstrual hygiene ads | FAQ | 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 directory | patent medicine | poetry directory | products, current | puberty booklets for girls and parents | religion | Religión y menstruación | your remedies for menstrual discomfort | menstrual products safety | science | Seguridad de productos para la menstruación | shame | slapping, menstrual | sponges | synchrony | tampon directory | early tampons | teen ads directory | tour of the former museum (video) | 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
Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación.

Newspaper ads for Kotex menstrual pads, 1920s (U.S.A.)
Nurse Buckland lived! Nurse Maxfield lived, probably. But Mary Pauline Callender?

Read the main discussion here.

I again thank the industrious and generous genealogy researcher for these ads!

See more old Kotex newspaper ads.
Below: at top are ads with Nurse Maxfield.
   
Above: Oakland [Cal.] Tribune, Aug. 15. 1935
Above: Evening State Journal, Lincoln, Nebraska, March 29, 1938. Is she looking at a thermometer - hey, they check everything in the Feminine Hygiene Shop - or a tampon?
 Below: more about Nurse Buckland. All are from the Appleton [Wisconsin] Post Crescent. Just below, June 7, 1922.
 
 Below: June 2, 1927
 
 Below: right, March 7, 1929
 Below: June 13, 1930
 
 Below: December 6, 1940
 
 
See more old Kotex newspaper ads. See some Kotex first-campaign ads: general discussion and ad prototype - January 1921 -
May 1921 - November 1921 - See more newspaper ads for Kotex and other items

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