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Metals for Defense exhibition display (1941)

  • 1941-Oct-01

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General view of an exhibition display advertising the Hercules Powder Company. Entitled "Metals for Defense," the display links explosives manufactured and sold by Hercules to the mining and collection of metals like iron and lead for use in defense industries.

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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  • Box 26, Folder 19

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Hercules Incorporated. “Metals for Defense Exhibition Display (1941),” October 1, 1941. Photographs from the Records & Ephemera of Hercules Incorporated, Box 26, Folder 19. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/ps623pj.

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