See a
massive amount of
Kotex information, ads, etc.,
including
the first Kotex ad
campaign (1921) - a Kotex prototype ("To Save Men's Lives
Science Discovered Kotex,") for the
first ad, about 1920 - first newspaper ad? (1920) and early
newspaper ads - early
newspaper articles about Kotex and
Cellucotton
What did women do about menstruation in
the past?
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MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S
HEALTH
Four Men and a
Machine: Commemorating the Seventy-fifth
Anniversary of Kimberly-Clark Corporation
(1947)
Company-produced history of Kimberly-Clark,
a paper-making company
in Wisconsin, which invented and makes
Kleenex & Kotex
I thank
the former college teacher who
has donated so much to this
museum (example) for this book!
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Below:
Page 29. Creped wadding (see it in an
early K-C tampon),
Cellucotton Products Company,
World War I, Kotex & Kleenex
disposable handkerchief (just as
Kotex was a disposable menstrual
pad).
The text avoids
words directly referring to
menstruation (although
everyone knew what Kotex was),
saying "a
wartime use for absorbent
wadding devised by Army nurses."
I love it. But remember that
this is 1947 and in an industry
that men ran. Everyone talks
about menstruation today -
right? Ha!
Read the interesting
story of KLEENEX in the last
paragraph.
I enlarged
the photo on the next page.
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NEXT | Chapter 1
(prelude, start of company [1874], Indians,
etc.) Photo of
office,
1880 Photos (Neenah,
Wisconsin, 1884, 1947) Chart (product
diversification) Chapter
2: The 2d 25 years
Introduction of scientific
methods "Fluffy
paper wadding"=Cellucotton=Kotex (and
Kleenex) Kleenex,
Kotex from Cellucotton
Chapter 3: The
3rd 25 years 1. Creped
wadding Kotex
display at retailers display, 1926 2.
Financing rapid
growth
3. Growth in the
Depression years 4. Production for war
5. Postwar expansion
6. One crop to a
century
Photo of Board of
Directors (not a woman to be seen)
See a massive amount of
Kotex information, ads, etc.,
including
the first Kotex ad
campaign (1921) - a Kotex prototype ("To Save Men's Lives
Science Discovered Kotex,")
for the first ad, about 1920 - first
newspaper ad? (1920)
and early newspaper ads - early newspaper
articles about Kotex and Cellucotton
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