othmeralia: Happy 2nd birthday to our Digital Collections, which officially launched two years ago o
othmeralia: Happy 2nd birthday to our Digital Collections, which officially launched two years ago on February 1, 2018! Inspired by the traditional 2nd anniversary gift, cotton, we hope you enjoy this roundup of cotton-related items from our collections.Images from top, with links to our Digital Collections, natch:Advertisement, “ Toxaphene Kills Cotton Insects,” 1952. Records of Hercules Incorporated. Women picking cotton waste for use in explosive manufacturing. The Romance of Modern Chemistry (1909). Yarn samples from Benzo Colours on Cotton Yarn, Part I (1921). Discharging chemical cotton at Hercules Hopewell plant, March 1945. Photographs from the Records & Ephemera of Hercules Incorporated. Advertisement for Dow soil fumigants, 1963. Advertisements from the Dow Chemical Historical Collection. -- source link