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 Dcovers the stretch material
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.
The Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health
menstruation, advertisement, sanitary napkin
Lamp with Kotex advertising
campaign on shade
"Not a shadow of a
doubt"
U.S.A., 1940s-1960s
| Here's that finishing
touch to anyone's décor! So, where would you put this lamp? Living room? Entrance hallway? Boudoir? Mancave? No, no, in a drugstore! That's probably where Kimberly-Clark, which made and makes Kotex, intended it. As the owner of the lamp writes, "[Not a] shadow of a doubt" on the shade identifies it as part of a campaign Kotex held in the 1940s-1950s. She e-mails, "I love this little
advertising display lamp I found at a vintage
store in Cleveland, Ohio. When the bulb heats up
the lamp
shade spins. The black coloring around
the name Kotex has little punched out stars so the light glows
through the shade as it slowly spins.
We've only dared to plug it in once since it looks
like someone repaired the top with questionable
glue that might be flammable.
"From the slogan, "Not a shadow of a doubt," it might possibly be from the late '40s into the mid-50s. "People always flip out (in a good way) when they see the amazing Kotex lamp on display at my house. I'd like to imagine that it once sat inside a mid-century drugstore's window, lit up and spinning away... a beacon in the night letting desperate ladies know where they might purchase their Kotex pads when the drugstore opened in the morning. "This particular 'shadow of a doubt' ad from 1955 actually features the colors that are on the lamp! http://www.mum.org/kotap55.htm "My Kotex lamp is about 9" tall with a wooden base that is about 4" wide. The shade looks to be about 4" in diameter at its top and about 5" in diameter at its bottom." I thank the owner of the lamp! |
Below: Kotex once even put advertising on boxcars on trains:
But ads on a telephone booth!?
MORE Kotex, tampons