See Pad-n-all, a similar pad with belt from about the same time. HOMEPAGE Menstrual napkin belts and pads from the 1902 and 1908 Sears, Roebuck catalogs (U.S.A.) Actual belts in the museum Underpants (directory of all on this site): 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 | 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, some current | Puberty booklets for girls and parents | Religion | Religión y menstruación | Your remedies for menstrual discomfort | Menstrual products safety | 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) | 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. Compad, a single compressed menstrual pad with belt, Sanitary Products Corp., U.S.A., after 1943 & before 1963 Many of my comments about Delicate and Pad-n-all, similar single compressed pads with belts from about the same time, apply to Compad, which I take means compressed pad. Women must have hated these but I guess preferred them to using an old sock or toilet paper in emergencies. The postal zone system - that number after the city in the address - started in 1943 and ended in 1963, so this pad dates from that era. See a British pad in a tube, Lilia (1930s?) and ads for earlier American pads in tubes in a Tourist Set, a package of menstrual supplies for the traveling woman. The Procter & Gamble Company kindly donated Compad to MUM. Harry Finley created the images. Below: The rectangular solid measures 2 7/8 x 3/4 x 1/2" (7.3 x 1.9 x 1.3 cm). Two sides are obviously larger than the others. Below: The two facing narrow sides.         Below: One of the ends.       NEXT: wrapped pad - unwrapped pad - instructions - pad expanding! - band & pad | See Pad-n-all, a similar pad with belt from about the same time. | See a British pad in a tube, Lilia (1930s?) and ads for earlier American pads in tubes in a Tourist Set, a package of menstrual supplies for the traveling woman. See excerpts from the Butler Bros. catalogs, 1916-30 & the Savage catalog, 1930 | Menstrual napkin belts and pads from the 1902 and 1908 Sears, Roebuck catalogs (U.S.A.) - Actual belts in the museum - Underpants (directory of all on this site): Early 20th-century Japanese ads from publications See how women wore a belt (and in a Swedish ad) - many real modern American belts. HOMEPAGE © 2008 Harry Finley. It is illegal to reproduce or distribute any of the work on this Web site in any manner or medium without written permission of the author. Please report suspected violations to hfinley@mum.org