Select digitized items from the exhibition, Consuming Women’s Healthcare, on display from October 30, 2024 to December 28, 2024.
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Kotex Advertisement
- "It forms new sanitary habits among women"
- 1922
1922 Kotex sanitary pad advertisement. Kotex says that these pads are inexpensive, comfortable, hygienic, and safe.
- Creator Of Work Cellucotton Products Company
- Subject Women--Health and hygiene, Menstruation, Menstrual products, Sanitary napkins
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Kotex Advertisement
- "This is ending women's greatest hygienic mistake"
- 1926-Nov-01
Advertisement for Kotex sanitary pads that boasts that they are disposable and absorb 16 times their own weight in moisture.
- Creator Of Work Kotex
- Subject Sanitary napkins, Menstruation, Women--Health and hygiene, Menstrual products, Women in advertising
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Premarin Advertisement
- 1990s
Premarin advertisement featuring a woman walking dogs on the beach. Conjugated estrogens, like Premarin, can be used for menopausal hormone therapy, osteoporosis, and less commonly certain cancers.
- Creator Of Work Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories
- Subject Menopause--Hormone therapy, Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, Women in advertising, Women--Health and hygiene, Drugs
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2 items
Chi-Ches-Ters Menstrual Pain Relief Tablets
- 1900s
Container of "Chi-Ches-ters" menstrual pain relief tablets, manufactured by Chichester Chemical Co.
Chichester Chemical Co. also manufactured "Pennyroyal Pills," which were marketed with language that subtly indicated…
- Manufacturer Chichester Chemical Co.
- Subject Analgesics, Drugs, Menstruation, Pharmaceutical chemistry, Women--Health and hygiene, Menstrual products
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2 items
Kotex Wonderform Belt
- 1960s
Kotex Wonderform Belt in a purple cardboard box with a cut-out window displaying a white belt against a gold background.
- Manufacturer Kimberly-Clark Corporation
- Subject Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Menstrual products, Menstruation, Women--Health and hygiene
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5 items
Rely tampons
- 1975
Free sample box of Rely Tampons wrapped in light blue wrapping paper with white Procter and Gamble logo. Rely Tampons were made by Procter & Gamble from 1975 to 1980.
- Manufacturer Procter & Gamble Company
- Subject Tampons, Women--Health and hygiene, Procter & Gamble Company, Menstrual products, Menstruation
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Kotex sanitary belt advertisement
- 1957
1957 advertisement for a Kotex sanitary belt. The ad boasts that the belt has unbreakable clasps that won't dig into the skin compared to metal clasps.
- Creator Of Work Kimberly-Clark Corporation
- Subject Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Menstrual products, Menstruation, Women--Health and hygiene, Women in advertising, Advertising
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Rely tampons advertisement
- 1980
1980 advertisement for Rely Tampons.
- Creator Of Work Procter & Gamble Company
- Subject Tampons, Procter & Gamble Company, Women--Health and hygiene, Advertising, Menstrual products, Menstruation
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Lysol advertisement
- One Neglect Than Can Be Stronger Than Love ...
- 1949
1949 advertisement for Lysol, with the slogan For complete Feminine Hygiene rely on...
"Lysol." The ad suggests that women should use Lysol as a vaginal douche to keep themselves clean and desirable for their husbands.…
