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Valley Cotton Growers: Protect Your Crops with Toxaphene
- Part of 1949 Hercules Advertisements
- 1949
Advertisement for Toxaphene, a toxicant manufactured and sold by the Hercules Powder Company for use in pesticides and insecticides.
Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont, the Hercules Powder…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Toxaphene, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Insect pests--Control, Insect pests, Naval stores, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial, Corporations
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Valley Cotton Growers: Now is the Time to Protect Your Crops
- Dust Early with Toxaphene
- Part of 1949 Hercules Advertisements
- 1949
Advertisement for Toxaphene, a toxicant manufactured and sold by the Hercules Powder Company for use in pesticides and insecticides.
Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont, the Hercules Powder…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Toxaphene, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Insect pests--Control, Insect pests, Naval stores, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial, Corporations
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Valley Cotton Growers: Hold Insects Down with Toxaphene
- Part of 1949 Hercules Advertisements
- 1949
Advertisement for Toxaphene, a toxicant manufactured and sold by the Hercules Powder Company for use in pesticides and insecticides.
Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont, the Hercules Powder…
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Valley Cotton Growers: Hold Insects Down with Toxaphene
- Part of 1949 Hercules Advertisements
- 1949
Advertisement for Toxaphene, a toxicant manufactured and sold by the Hercules Powder Company for use in pesticides and insecticides.
Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont, the Hercules Powder…
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Up in Mother's Room
- 1940s
Booklet corresponding to a radio broadcast program created by the National Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association. The booklet begins by describing a scenario in which a woman shares her home with her elderly mother.…
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8 items
Up Goes the Curtain on Summer
- 1940s
Booklet corresponding to a radio broadcast program created by the National Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association. The booklet describes the joy of escaping a stifling home to enjoy the outdoors by creating one's own…
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Unloading of tensile sheet from mold
- Circa 1949
View of a worker removing a tensile sheet from a mold used in the hydraulic press at the Naval Air Experimental Station's Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory. The hydraulic press is a 200-ton capacity…
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United States Department of Justice Notice to Aliens of Enemy Nationalities
- 1940s
Instructions for filling out the United States Certificates of Identification form.
- Creator Of Work United States. Department of Justice
- Subject World War (1939-1945), Emigration and immigration law, Emigration and immigration
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Unidentified U.S.D.A. building
- 1940s – circa
Exterior view of an unidentified United States Department of Agriculture building. The building is believed to be part of the U.S.D.A.'s Agricultural Engineering Laboratory facility located in Beltsville, Maryland.
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Unequalled for Precise Research and Analytical Work
- 1940s
This advertisement for the Model G pH meter highlights the different electrodes that could be used with it. The Model G was Beckman Instruments's first commercial pH meter.
Arnold Beckman invented his first pH meter in…
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Underfoot - Out of Mind
- 1940s
Booklet corresponding to a radio broadcast program created by the National Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association. The booklet discusses cleaning and caring for the floors in one's home. Prescribes frequent waxing,…
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Under-Ground Castles
- 1940s
Booklet corresponding to a radio broadcast program created by the National Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association. The booklet discusses how to transform a home's basement or cellar into a recreation room, or…
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Undated notes written by Max Bredig
- 1940s
Assortment of handwritten notes containing dates and names associated with family and friends abroad whom Max Bredig (1868-1902) is attempting to aid in immigration to the United States.
- Creator Of Work Bredig, Max Albert, 1902-1977
- Subject Bredig, Max Albert, 1902-1977, Reis, Alfred J., 1882-1951, Third Reich, World War (1939-1945), Jewish refugees
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Undated notes written by Max Bredig
- 1940s
Assortment of handwritten notes containing dates and names associated with Fritz Hochwald (1897-1968) who Max Bredig (1868-1902) is attempting to aid in immigration to the United States.
- Creator Of Work Bredig, Max Albert, 1902-1977
- Subject Bredig, Max Albert, 1902-1977, Hochwald, Fritz G., 1897-1968, Emigration and immigration
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U.S. Department of Agriculture personnel
- 1940s
Group photograph of U.S. Department of Agriculture personnel at an unidentified facility. The individuals in the photograph are identified as follows:
Standing (left to right): Mr. Whittaker; Louise Gardner; J. R.…
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Two-Faced Room
- 1940s
Booklet corresponding to a radio broadcast program created by the National Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association. The booklet discusses how to decorate and situate a single-room or small apartment to be…
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Two models standing on plank of Styrofoam
- 1949
View of two female models standing on a plank of Dow Chemical Company Styrofoam to demonstrate the product's sturdiness and durability. Several boxes of Styrofoam products are visible in the background.
Invented in…
- Contributor Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Dow Chemical Company, Women in advertising, Foam, Advertising, Polystyrene, Women employees
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Trimming Plexiglas at Rohm and Haas facility
- 1940s
General view of an unidentified employee using a band saw to trim a curved Plexiglas panel designed for use as an aircraft windshield. This photograph was likely taken at the Rohm and Haas Company plant located in…
- Creator Of Work Rohm and Haas Company
- Subject Plastics, Employees, Chemical industry, Band saws, Rohm and Haas Company, Corporations, Plexiglas, Plastics industry and trade
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Toxaphene for Agricultural Insecticides
- Part of 1949 Hercules Advertisements
- 1949
Advertisement for Toxaphene, a toxicant manufactured and sold by the Hercules Powder Company for use in pesticides and insecticides. This advertisement appeared in Annual Proceedings of the Entomological Society of…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Toxaphene, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Insect pests--Control, Insect pests, Naval stores, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial, Corporations
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Toxaphene for Agricultural Insecticides
- Part of 1949 Hercules Advertisements
- 1949
Advertisement for Toxaphene, a synthetic organic insecticide toxicant developed by the Hercules Powder Company primarily for use in agricultural insecticides. The advertisement includes a chart outlining the solubility…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Toxaphene, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores, Insecticides, Insecticides--Toxicology, Advertising, Industrial
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Toxaphene Kills Grasshoppers: The Camera Shows it's as Simple as A.B.C.
- 1949
Pamphlet in the form of a children's alphabet book depicts the stages of death inflicted upon a grasshopper with the use of Toxaphene pesticides produced by Hercules Powder Company.
Originally trademarked by the…
- Author Hercules Powder Company
- Subject Toxaphene, Grasshoppers, Pesticides
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Toxaphene Could Have Saved This Crop!
- Part of 1949 Hercules Advertisements
- 1949
Advertisement for Toxaphene, a toxicant manufactured and sold by the Hercules Powder Company for use in pesticides and insecticides. This advertisement appeared in National County Agent.
Formed in 1912 as part of an…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Toxaphene, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Insect pests--Control, Insect pests, Naval stores, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial, Corporations
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Toxaphene Could Have Saved This Crop!
- Part of 1949 Hercules Advertisements
- 1949
Advertisement for Toxaphene, a toxicant manufactured and sold by the Hercules Powder Company for use in pesticides and insecticides. This advertisement appeared in Farm Journal.
Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Toxaphene, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Insect pests--Control, Insect pests, Naval stores, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial, Corporations
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Toxaphene (Chlorinated Camphene 67-69% Chlorine) for Agricultural Insecticides
- Part of 1949 Hercules Advertisements
- 1949
Advertisement for Toxaphene, a toxicant manufactured and sold by the Hercules Powder Company for use in pesticides and insecticides. This advertisement appeared in Florida Entomologist and Journal of Economic Entomology.…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Toxaphene, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Insect pests--Control, Insect pests, Naval stores, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial, Corporations
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Too Good to Give Away
- 1940s
A short story written by Fannie Ferber Fox. Written from the perspective of an immigrant and his family, the tale encapsulates feelings of insecurity experienced by immigrants in a new country. Without proper clothing,…