Employees operating Stern Shredder at Hercules Hopewell plant
- 1940s
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Small JPG1200 x 980px — 167 KBLarge JPG2880 x 2352px — 668 KBFull-sized JPG4276 x 3492px — 1.2 MBOriginal fileTIFF — 4276 x 3492px — 42.8 MBTwo views of an unidentified employee adjusting the Stern Shredder machine at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. The shredder was used to process linter sheets of cellulosic fibrous materials, such as chemical cotton (purified cellulose obtained from raw cotton linters), manufactured at the plant.
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. “Employees Operating Stern Shredder at Hercules Hopewell Plant,” 1940–1949. Photographs from the Records & Ephemera of Hercules Incorporated, Box 1, Folder 35. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/c534fp67b.
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