Advertisement featuring a billboard reading "Toxaphene kills cotton insects" with a depiction of a tuft of cotton wool. Two men are visible in the foreground, one holding a tuft of cotton wool.

Originally trademarked…

Advertisement featuring a black and white photograph of a dead boll weevil with caption reading:

Close-up of a boll weevil, flat on its back – killed by toxaphene

Originally trademarked by the Hercules Powder Company,…

Advertisement for toxaphene with a photograph of a dead boll weevil and an extended list of harmful insects that can be controlled through the use of toxaphene.

Originally trademarked by the Hercules Powder Company,…

Color print advertisement for Hercules CMC-CT, unpurified cellulose gum manufactured and sold by Hercules Powder Company for use in detergent products. The advertisement features a line drawing of a uniformed man…

Color print advertisement for CMC Formula, a cellulose product manufactured and sold by Hercules Powder Company as a laundry finishing agent. The advertisement shows an illustration of a smiling woman holding a stack of…

Color print advertisement for Hercules CMC, a cellulose gum manufactured and sold by the Hercules Powder Company for use as a binding and stabilizing agent in consumer goods. The advertisement shows a line drawing of a…

Advertisement for books detailing the use of toxaphene for insect control including illustrations of grasshoppers, salt-marsh caterpillars, cutworms, armyworms and boll weevils.

Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust…

Illustrated advertisement for Toxaphene Dusts – Sprays depicting a farmer standing in a farm field with an airplane spraying Toxaphene Dusts – Sprays. Text reads:

Toxaphene dusts and sprays are widely recommended for…

Advertisement for flotation (also known as frothing) agents, including pine oil and rosin amine, manufactured and sold by the Hercules Powder Company. Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont, the…

Advertisement for Toxaphene Dusts – Sprays illustrating crop destroyers including the rapid plant bug, cotton leafworm and lygus bugs.

Originally trademarked by the Hercules Powder Company, Toxaphene was a synthetic…

Advertisement featuring a black and white photograph of a dead boll weevil with caption reading:

Close-up of a boll weevil, flat on its back – killed by toxaphene

Originally trademarked by the Hercules Powder Company,…

Advertisement for Toxaphene Agricultural Insecticides depicting the western hemisphere with an airplane and tractor spraying insecticides.

Originally trademarked by the Hercules Powder Company, Toxaphene was a…

Advertisement for Toxaphene Dusts – Sprays illustrating crop destroyers including alfalfa weevils, sweetclover weevils and salt-marsh caterpillars.

Originally trademarked by the Hercules Powder Company, Toxaphene was…

Advertisement for Toxaphene Dusts – Sprays illustrating crop destroyers including thrips, conchuela and boll weevil bugs.

Originally trademarked by the Hercules Powder Company, Toxaphene was a synthetic organic…

"The Hercules Mixer" was Hercules' in-house publication that provided both historical and technical information and also offered a glimpse of employees' day-to-day lives at the company. A portion of the June 1961…

"The Hercules Mixer" was Hercules' in-house publication that provided both historical and technical information and also offered a glimpse of employees' day-to-day lives at the company. Portions of the…

"The Hercules Mixer" was Hercules' in-house publication that provided both historical and technical information and also offered a glimpse of employees' day-to-day lives at the company. Portions of the May and October…

"The Hercules Mixer" was Hercules' in-house publication that provided both historical and technical information and also offered a glimpse of employees' day-to-day lives at the company. A portion of the May 1964 section…

"The Hercules Mixer" was Hercules' in-house publication that provided both historical and technical information and also offered a glimpse of employees' day-to-day lives at the company. Portions of the March-June 1966…

"The Hercules Mixer" was Hercules' in-house publication that provided both historical and technical information and also offered a glimpse of employees' day-to-day lives at the company. Portions of the January-February…

"The Hercules Mixer" was Hercules' in-house publication that provided both historical and technical information and also offered a glimpse of employees' day-to-day lives at the company. Portions of the Number 1 and 3…