This collection consists of correspondence, publications, advertisements, and other ephemera produced by the Hercules Powder Company, later Hercules Inc. Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont, the Hercules Powder Company initially specialized in the manufacture of explosives and smokeless powders and subsequently diversified its business to encompass a variety of industrial products, including pine and paper chemicals, synthetics, pigments, polymers, and cellulose. The materials digitized and available here primarily consist of print advertisements for assorted Hercules' products, including Toxaphene, Pine Oil, and Parlon, dating from the 1930's to the 1950's.
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7 items
The Hercules Mixer, Volume 54
- 1972-Jan – 1972-Dec
The Hercules Mixer was the 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…
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6 items
The Hercules Mixer, Volume 49
- 1967-Jan – 1967-Dec
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…
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10 items
The Hercules Mixer, Volume 48
- 1966-Mar – 1966-Dec
The Hercules Mixer was the Hercules Powder Company's 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…
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3 items
The Hercules Mixer, Volume 46
- 1964-Jan – 1964-Dec
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…
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5 items
The Hercules Mixer, Volume 45
- 1963-Jan – 1963-Dec
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…
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42 items
The Hercules Mixer, Volume 44
- 1962-Jan – 1962-Dec
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 September-November…
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16 items
The Hercules Mixer, Volume 43
- 1961-Jan – 1961-Dec
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 section…
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You Get Them All!
- Advertisement for Hercules CMC
- Part of 1952 Hercules Advertisements
- 1952
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…
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Use these "Agents" for Best Recoveries
- Part of 1952 Hercules Advertisements
- 1952
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…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Rosin oil, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Pine oil, Corporations, Naval stores, Flotation reagents, Advertising, Industrial
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Uniform Smoothener, Thickener, Stabilizer
- Part of 1952 Hercules Advertisements
- 1952
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 features a line drawing of…
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Toxaphene Socks 'Em
- Part of 1952 Hercules Advertisements
- 1952
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,…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Toxaphene, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial
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Toxaphene Socks 'Em
- Part of 1952 Hercules Advertisements
- 1952
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,…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Toxaphene, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial
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Toxaphene Kills Insect Pests
- Part of 1952 Hercules Advertisements
- 1952
Advertisement for toxaphene depicting various insects with an extended list of harmful insects that can be controlled through the use of toxaphene.
Originally trademarked by the Hercules Powder Company, Toxaphene was…- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Toxaphene, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial
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Toxaphene Kills Insect Pests
- Part of 1952 Hercules Advertisements
- 1952
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,…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Toxaphene, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial
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Toxaphene Kills Cotton Insects
- Part of 1952 Hercules Advertisements
- 1952
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…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Toxaphene, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial
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Toxaphene Agricultural Insecticides
- Part of 1952 Hercules Advertisements
- 1952
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…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Toxaphene, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial
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Thanite, the Low Cost Toxicant
- Part of 1952 Hercules Advertisements
- 1952
Color print advertisement for Thanite, a toxicant manufactured and sold by the Hercules Powder Company for use in pesticides and insecticides. The advertisement features illustrations of insecticide sprayers, as well as…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Chemical industry, Research, Industrial, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial, Thanite, DDT (Insecticide)
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Partners in Profits
- Part of 1952 Hercules Advertisements
- 1952
Print advertisement for Toxaphene insecticides manufactured and sold by Hercules Powder Company. The advertisement shows an illustration of two men, one harvesting resin from a tree for turpentine and another inspecting…
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Paint that Moves Traffic
- Part of 1952 Hercules Advertisements
- 1952
Print advertisement for Parlon (Hercules chlorinated rubber) and Pentalyn, a resin product, both manufactured and sold by Hercules Powder Company for use in traffic paints. The advertisement features an illustration of…
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Now--Better Cellulose Gum for Better Printing Pastes
- Part of 1952 Hercules Advertisements
- 1952
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…
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New CMC Formula Revolutionizes Finishing!
- Part of 1952 Hercules Advertisements
- 1952
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…
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Insects You Should Know
- Part of 1952 Hercules Advertisements
- 1952
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…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Toxaphene, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial
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Insects You Should Know
- Part of 1952 Hercules Advertisements
- 1952
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…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Toxaphene, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial
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Insects You Should Know
- Part of 1952 Hercules Advertisements
- 1952
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…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Toxaphene, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial
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Ideal's Saucy Walker Acetate Plastic Doll Does Everything!
- Part of 1952 Hercules Advertisements
- 1952
Print advertisement for Celluose Acetate manufactured and sold by the Hercules Powder Company for use as a base in plastic molding compounds. The advertisement features a photograph of a young girl playing with a large…
