TY - MANSCPT DB - Science History Institute DP - Science History Institute M2 - Courtesy of Science History Institute. Rights: No Known Copyright TI - Timothy R. Curley operating lift truck at Hercules Hopewell plant ID - zg64tm64h AU - Hercules Incorporated DA - 1951/// YR - 1951 AV - Photographs from the Records & Ephemera of Hercules Incorporated, Box 1, Folder 36 VL - Photographs from the Records & Ephemera of Hercules Incorporated, Box 1, Folder 36 AN - Photographs from the Records & Ephemera of Hercules Incorporated, Box 1, Folder 36 UR - https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/zg64tm64h AB - General view of Timothy R. Curley operating a lift truck to move bales of cotton linters at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. At the Hopewell plant, raw cotton linters (short fiber residues left on the cottonseed after the longer staple, aka the "lint" fibers, are removed by ginning) were used to produce so-called "chemical cotton," which is commonly used for the manufacture of cellulose ethers. 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. KW - Employees KW - Chemical industry KW - Cotton KW - Hercules Incorporated KW - Corporations KW - African Americans KW - Cellulose KW - Forklift trucks KW - African American men KW - Warehouses KW - Curley, Timothy R. LA - ER -