See more ads for
menarche-education booklets: Marjorie
May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1933), Tampax tampons (1970, with
Susan Dey), Personal
Products (1955, with Carol Lynley), and
German o.b. tampons
(lower ad, 1970s)
And read Lynn Peril's series
about these and similar booklets!
See more Kotex items: First ad (1921) -
ad 1928 (Sears and
Roebuck catalog) - Lee
Miller ads (first real person in
amenstrual 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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The Museum of Menstruation
and Women's Health
Below we see the proof of an ad for
menstrual hygiene appearing in many
magazines in the U.S.A. in 1923. I
think it's interesting to peek into
the making of advertising.
See the printed ad.
This proof is in the Wallace
Meyer [read
something about Meyer's role in
early Kotex advertising] collection
at the State Historical Society of
Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin,
U.S.A.
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The date stamp marks
the received date as 23 April 1923,
and on
the center block we see April 26 as
the necessary return date in order to
make the July issue.
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The writing: "Too heavy
- why not same body text only larger,"
which refers to the "Telephone" title.
In fact, it looks to me as if that
change was made. See the printed ad.
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See the printed
ad. - Lee
Miller ads (first real person in
a menstrual hygiene ad, 1928)
See more ads
for menarche-education booklets: Marjorie
May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex,
1933), Tampax
tampons (1970, with Susan Dey), Personal Products
(1955, with Carol Lynley), and German
o.b. tampons
(lower ad, 1981)
See also the booklets
How shall I
tell my daughter? (Modess,
various dates), Growing
up and liking it (Modess,
various dates), and Marjorie May's
Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1928).
And read Lynn Peril's series
about these and similar booklets!
See another ad
for As One Girl to Another (1942), and
the booklet
itself.
© 1999 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
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