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 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 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…

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…

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 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 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 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…

Print advertisement for Toxaphene produced by Hercules Powder Company consists of an inset paragraph describing how the piney scent of Toxaphene makes it pleasing to aerial operators. This advertisement appeared in Nati…

Print advertisement for toxaphene produced by Hercules Powder Company reads "Cotton Insect News Flash! Mississippi" with a bale of cotton alongside the toxaphene tagline that reads "kills cotton pests." Accompanying…

Print advertisement for toxaphene produced by Hercules Powder Company depicts the eastern hemisphere of the earth with an inset of a cotton plant. Accompanying paragraph states how the production of toxaphene has…

Print advertisement for toxaphene produced by Hercules Powder Company reads "Cotton Insect News Flash! Arkansas" with a bale of cotton alongside the toxaphene tagline that reads "kills cotton pests." Accompanying…

Print advertisement for Toxaphene produced by Hercules Powder Company consists of an inset paragraph describing how South Carolina cotton growers are utilizing Toxaphene to control insects. This advertisement appeared…

Print advertisement for toxaphene produced by Hercules Powder Company depicts a pine tree with paragraphs describing how the use of toxaphene for cotton and other crops utilizes Southern pine trees due to toxaphene…

Print advertisement for toxaphene produced by Hercules Powder Company depicts the eastern hemisphere of the earth with an inset of a plant as well as a stylized plant overlaid on top of the earth. A paragraph below the…

Print advertisement for toxaphene produced by the Hercules Powder Company depicts rows of cotton fields with an inset paragraph listing the pests toxaphene is effective in controlling. This advertisement appeared in Cot…

Print advertisement for toxaphene produced by Hercules Powder Company reads "Cotton Insect News Flash! Arkansas" with a bale of cotton alongside the toxaphene tagline that reads "kills cotton pests." Accompanying…

Print advertisement for toxaphene produced by Hercules Powder Company reads "Cotton Insect News Georgia" with a bale of cotton alongside the toxaphene tagline that reads "kills cotton pests." Accompanying paragraph…

Print advertisement for toxaphene produced by Hercules Powder Company depicts a photograph of a dead grasshopper killed by toxaphene. A paragraph describes how the use of toxaphene will increase yields by killing insect…

Print advertisement for toxaphene produced by Hercules Powder Company depicts a photograph of a dead grasshopper killed by toxaphene. A paragraph describes how the use of toxaphene will increase yields by killing insect…

Print advertisement for toxaphene produced by Hercules Powder Company features a photograph of a dead boll weevil killed by toxaphene. A paragraph describes how the use of toxaphene will increase yields by killing…

Print advertisement for toxaphene produced by Hercules Powder Company depicting pages from a calendar with a bale of cotton. A paragraph describes how the use of toxaphene will increase yields by killing weevil…

Print advertisement for toxaphene produced by Hercules Powder Company depicts a basket full of cotton with a portion shaded reading "average reduction cotton acreage for 1950." Accompanying paragraph's tagline reads…

Print advertisement for toxaphene produced by Hercules Powder Company with an arrow reading "get this free booklet" pointing to a booklet entitled Current State and Federal Recommendations on How to Use and Apply…