Another Kimberly-Clark corporate history,
Four Men and a Machine: Commemorating
the Seventy-fifth
Anniversary of Kimberly-Clark Corporation
(1947)
Corporate
history of Tampax: Small
Wonder: How Tambrands began, prospered,
and grew (1986)
How
Modess
Sanitary Napkins Began: excerpts
from"A Company That Cares: One Hundred
Year Illustrated History of Johnson and
Johnson"
"Cooperation"
Excerpts (U.S.A., 1931-34)
Sometimes funny publication for
Kimberly-Clark employees during the Great
Depression
Marjorie May, three booklets, 1935 main page
See a Kotex ad
advertising this booklet.
See Kotex items: First ad
(1921; scroll to bottom of page) - ad 1928 (Sears and Roebuck
catalog) - Lee
Miller ads (first real person in a
menstrual hygiene ad, 1928) - Marjorie May's Twelfth
Birthday (booklet for girls, 1928,
Australian edition; there are many links
here to Kotex items) - Preparing for
Womanhood (1920s, booklet for girls;
Australian edition) - 1920s booklet in
Spanish showing disposal
method - box
from about 1969 - "Are you in the
know?" ads (Kotex) (1949)(1953)(1964)(booklet, 1956) -
See more ads on the Ads
for Teenagers main page
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Museum of Menstruation and
Women's Health
Four Young
Men Go In Search Of A
Profit!
The Story of Kimberly-Clark
Corporation
(1872-1957)
[By] John R. Kimberly
An address at New York to the
Newcomen Society in North
America, 1957
Menstruation, Kotex,
Cellucotton, menstrual hygiene,
history, sanitary napkin, pad
Ten
years after Kimberly-Clark
Corporation, maker of Kotex and
Kleenex, celebrated
its 75th anniversary its president
sketched the company's history. Read
his interesting historical summary
below.
You might find especially
interesting the company's embarrassment
in producing something related to
menstruation, so embarrassing that
it created a separate company to
sell it. But men ran the
operation for decades unlike the
early maker of Tampax, a woman
(although a man
invented Tampax). (Read Tampax's
history in detail.)
The difference? K-C made paper of
all kinds (read about its products
in this pamphlet) whereas Tampax
specialized in menstrual products.
Read early
articles about Cellucotton,
the wadding inside a Kotex pad
that the company created.
More about the Newcomen
Society on the next page.
I thank
the donor of the booklet!
Below:
Cover (sorry for the
quality). The pamphlet, on
laid paper (picture at
bottom), measures 6
x 9" (15.2 x 22.9
cm). There are 28
pages inside the heavier
covers.
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Laid paper shows in the horizontal lines.
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