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The Public Voted In This Beauty Contest
- Part of 1940 Hercules Advertisements
- 1940
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 photo of a woman in a shower framed by artistic renderings of various bathroom products made from cellulose acetate plastic, including a tooth brush, combs, soap dish, and door handle. This advertisement was published in the October 1940 edition of Fortune magazine.
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.
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Hercules Incorporated. “The Public Voted In This Beauty Contest.” 1940 Hercules Advertisements, 1940. Records of Hercules Incorporated, Volume 1940. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/dj52w561j.
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