See some pad
dispensers and ads for pads that come with
pouches: New
Freedom and Whenever,
from the U.S.A., and Camelia,
from Germany.
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
Disposal bags for sanitary
napkins, page 5 (see pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
Melissa Terras, now
Director of University
College London Centre for
Digital Humanities and
Professor of Digital
Humanities, UCL,
generously contributed these bags
she collected on her visits to
conferences around Europe. Years
ago Dr Terras started these pages
by sending me disposal bags while
studying at Christ Church, Oxford
University for her doctorate.
Thanks again, Mel!
Except where noted, the backs of
the bags are blank.
Read an introduction on page 1.
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Above:
This a plastic bag from
the Hilton Hotel at Gatwick
Airport, England. The other bags
on this page are paper. I find it
interesting that it has only
English text unlike the other
European bags.
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Above:
From Paris.
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Above:
From Oslo
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Above:
What looks like lilies of the
valley seems designed to counter
the odor of menstruation, at least
mentally. See a later
version.
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© 2006 Harry Finley.
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distribute any of the work on this
Web site in any manner or medium
without written permission of the
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violations to hfinley@mum.org
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