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Continuous digester at Hercules Hopewell plant
- 1957-Mar-12 – 1957-Mar-15
General view of the charging end of a continuous digester used at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. The continuous digester system was likely used to process cellulosic fibrous materials, such as…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery
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Continuous bleaching equipment at Hercules Hopewell plant
- 1957-Mar-12 – 1957-Mar-15
General view of continuous bleaching equipment used in the production of so-called "chemical cotton" at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. Chemical cotton, a type of purified cellulose obtained…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery
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Employee operating paper machine at Hercules Hopewell plant
- 1957-Mar-12 – 1957-Mar-15
Two views of an unidentified employee operating a paper machine in the Sheeting Department at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. The paper machine was likely used to process cellulosic fibrous…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery
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Continuous bleaching equipment at Hercules Hopewell plant
- 1957-Mar-12 – 1957-Mar-15
General view of continuous bleaching equipment used in the production of so-called "chemical cotton" at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. Chemical cotton, a type of purified cellulose obtained…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery
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Employee bagging cellulose gum at Hercules Hopewell plant
- 1957-Mar-12 – 1957-Mar-15
General view of an unidentified employee bagging carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. Also known as cellulose gum or tylose powder, CMC is a cellulose derivative…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery
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Employees bailing chemical cotton at Hercules Hopewell plant
- 1957-Mar-12 – 1957-Mar-15
General view of several unidentified employees bailing and wrapping sheets of so-called "chemical cotton" for shipment at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. Chemical cotton, a type of purified…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Cotton, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, African Americans, Cellulose, Machinery
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Donald Stevens operating sheet-making equipment at Hercules Hopewell plant
- 1951
Close-up view of laboratory operator Donald Stevens using a press to remove water from a sheet of so-called "chemical cotton," i.e. purified cellulose obtained from raw cotton linters, manufactured in the Cellulose…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Rittase, William M., 1894-1968
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Cotton, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery, Stevens, Donald
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John Coleman operating roll rewinder at Hercules Hopewell plant
- 1951
General view of back tender John Coleman operating a roll rewinder in the Cellulose Department at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. Per notations accompanying the photograph, the roll rewinder was…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Rittase, William M., 1894-1968
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Cotton, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery, Coleman, John
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Production of cellulose gum at Hercules Hopewell plant
- 1951
General view of the production of carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. Also known as cellulose gum or tylose powder, CMC is a cellulose derivative commonly used as a…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Rittase, William M., 1894-1968
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery
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Fourdrinier machine in use at Hercules Hopewell plant
- 1951
Close-up view of a Fourdrinier machine in use at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. Per notations accompanying the photograph, this Fourdrinier machine was used to dewater sheets of so-called…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Rittase, William M., 1894-1968
- Subject Chemical industry, Cotton, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery
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Leroy Brown and John Williams operating automatic banding machine at Hercules Hopewell plant
- 1951
General view of Leroy Brown and John Williams operating an automatic banding machine in the Cellulose Department at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. Per notations accompanying the photograph, the…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Rittase, William M., 1894-1968
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Cotton, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, African Americans, Cellulose, African American men, Machinery, Brown, Leroy, Williams, John
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Paul F. Brown operating bale breaking machine at Hercules Hopewell plant
- 1951
Two views of employee Paul F. Brown feeding raw cotton linters (short fiber residues left on the cottonseed after the longer staple, aka the "lint" fibers, are removed by ginning) into a bale breaking machine in the…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Rittase, William M., 1894-1968
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Cotton, Polymers, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, African Americans, Cellulose, African American men, Machinery, Brown, Paul F.
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Extruder at Hercules Parlin plant
- 1951-May-01
Retouched photograph with a general view of an extruder used at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Parlin, New Jersey. Extruders were commonly used to process and shape a variety of raw materials produced at the…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Bussa Studio
- Subject Chemical industry, Extrusion process, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery
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Delores Horne analyzing weed killer in Dow Analytical Laboratory
- 1950s
General view of chemist Delores Horne analyzing the active constituent of a weed killer in the Dow Chemical Company's Analytical Laboratory located in Midland, Michigan. Per a notation accompanying the photograph, Ms.…
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Saran bubble at Dow Chemical Company
- 1951
General view of an unidentified employee inspecting a saran bubble as it is extruded from a machine during the production of saran film at the Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan. During production, the film…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Plastics, Employees, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Plastics industry and trade, Machinery
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Saran film production at Dow Chemical Company
- 1951
Elevated view of employees at work in the Dow Chemical Company's saran film manufacturing facilities in Midland, Michigan. During production, saran film was trimmed and wound into so-called inventory rolls, such as…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Plastics, Employees, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Plastics industry and trade, Machinery
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Saran bubbles at Dow Chemical Company
- 1951
General view of saran bubbles being extruded from rolling machines during the production of saran film at the Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan. During production, the film passed through a series of…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Plastics, Employees, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Plastics industry and trade, Machinery
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Saran film manufacturing at Dow Chemical Company
- 1951
General view of an unidentified employee at work in the Dow Chemical Company's saran film manufacturing facilities in Midland, Michigan. Saran plastic is seen passing through some type of bath or wash by virtue of a…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Plastics, Employees, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Plastics industry and trade, Machinery
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Saran film manufacturing at Dow Chemical Company
- 1951
General view of two unidentified employees at work in the Dow Chemical Company's saran film manufacturing facilities in Midland, Michigan. The employees are seen stretching a length of film between two rollers. During…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Plastics, Employees, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Plastics industry and trade, Machinery
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Dow Chemical Company saran film manufacturing facilities
- 1951
General view of employees at work in the Dow Chemical Company's saran film manufacturing facilities in Midland, Michigan. Initially developed for the U.S. Army to wrap arms and equipment for transport during World War…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Plastics, Employees, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Plastics industry and trade, Machinery
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Benny Williams working in mix house at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1954
General view of mix house group leader Benny Williams mixing Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) with graphite for use in the electric blasting caps produced at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York.…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer O'Neill, James J.
- Subject Pentaerythritol tetranitrate, Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Graphite, Corporations, Explosives, Machinery, Williams, Benny
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Plastic extrusion machine at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1955-Feb-08
General view of Joseph Maurer pouring ethyl cellulose into the hopper of a plastic extrusion machine at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. In the machine, the ethyl cellulose was heated and then…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Extrusion process, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, Plastics--Extrusion, Machinery
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Plastic extrusion machine at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1954
Close-up view of a plastic extrusion machine used to coat and insulate wires at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. As visible in the photograph, ethyl cellulose was heated and then extruded as…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer O'Neill, James J.
- Subject Detonators, Chemical industry, Extrusion process, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, Plastics--Extrusion, Machinery
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Ray Kent conducting high polymer study at Dow Plastics Production Laboratory
- 1956-Jun-13
General view of Ray Kent checking a polymer operation at the Dow Chemical Company's Plastics Production Laboratory. Established in 1953 as an outgrowth of Dow's Physical Research Laboratory, the Plastics Production…
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Cliffs Dow plant in Marquette, Michigan
- After 1934 – before 1970
General view of a section of the interior of the Cliffs Dow wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. Seeking a source of raw material for its new plastic, ethylcellulose, the Dow Chemical Company joined…