More Pinkham Medicine Co. (other patent medicine):
"Her" handwritten letter to a sick woman, Typed letter to a Canadian (1918), Ad from the Salt Lake Weekly Herald (1881) for Mrs. Pinkham, trade cards (flowers, girl with cat), post card of Stanford University, a bottle for Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, mending kit, booklet Stretching Your Dollar, bottles for her Blood Medicine and (just plain) Medicine, Home Talks, Private Text-Book Upon Ailments Peculiar to Women, Fruits and Candies booklet, Come into the Kitchen recipe booklet, and a modern bottle, box and instructions for her Tablets.
A discussion of the letter testimonials, and their authenticity, of the Pinkham company (in a discussion of a Pursettes ad with a letter testimonial)
See three letters to MUM about the ingredients of her Compound, and one about the lyrics of an English pop song, Lily the Pink, (and parody of "Yes, We Have No Bananas" from an American newspaper) about her.
Booklets menstrual hygiene companies made for girls, women and teachers - patent medicine - a list of books and articles about menstruation - videos
Ads for teenagers
Many more PADS, BOOKLETS - See TAMPONS, MENSTRUAL BELTS, CUPS, SPONGES, UNDERPANTS
HOMEPAGE
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.


The Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health

Booklet
Practical Cooking Recipes (1925, Pinkham Medicine Co., U.S.A.)
promoting Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound

The Pinkham Medicine Company produced many booklets and other things to attract customers. (Read more about the company.) Other recipe books include Fruits and Candies and Come into the Kitchen.

Previous owners obviously used the booklet but it's in good enough shape for our purposes.

I thank the donor!


Below: Back cover. The booklet measures 4 1/2 x 6 15/16" (11.4 x 17.5 cm).
Only the front and back covers have a second color, blue.
The booklet's in terrible shape; the stains might come from kitchen use. A previous owner dogeared at least one page and penciled changes to a recipe.
Below: Front cover. The cook's disheveled apron and great smile betray the ca. 20 percent alcohol content of the signature Lydia E. Pinkham Vegetable Compound. America's immigrants - is that an ethnic costume hat from Europe? Dutch? - showed their self-starter character in undermining the banning of most alcohol at this time.
Below: Part of the back cover, enlarged: I don't see any empties on the floor so the lady is probably working on her
first bottle of the Pinkham Vegetable Compound, at this sitting anyway.
Greeting her daughter (above) indicates she can still stand in spite of the
approximately 20 percent alcohol, a boon to ladies during Prohibition, which
is when this booklet appeared.
Pinkham ads emphasized the need to take the Compound often - every day worked wonders - to
solve your problems.

NEXT | covers - inside front cover & p. 1 2-3 4-5 6-7 8-9 10-11 12-13 14-15 16-17 18-19
20-21 22-23 24-25 26-27 28-29 30-31 32-inside back cover
More Pinkham Medicine Co. (other patent medicine):
"Her" handwritten letter to a sick woman, Typed letter to a Canadian (1918), Ad from the Salt Lake Weekly Herald (1881) for Mrs. Pinkham, trade cards (flowers, girl with cat), post card of Stanford University, a bottle for Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, mending kit,
Many more
BOOKLETS - See TAMPONS, MENSTRUAL BELTS, PADS, CUPS, SPONGES, UNDERPANTS

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without written permission of the author. Please report suspected violations to hfinley@mum.org