A brochure describing the ways in which the Hercules Powder Company has assisted chemical manufacturers to improve either their products or processing methods. Discusses Hercules resins, post-graduate training programs, thermoplastics, and rosins. Illustrated with a series of colorful cartoons. Includes anti-black imagery depicting a minstrel show scene with a blackface performer.

Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont, the Hercules Powder Company (later Hercules Inc.) 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.