Print advertisement for Toxaphene, a toxicant manufactured and sold by the Hercules Powder Company for use in pesticides and insecticides. The advertisement shows a line drawing of a man inspecting the leaves of a cotton plant. The accompanying text promotes the use of toxaphene to "kill all common cotton insect pests." This advertisement appeared in Cotton Gin & Oil Mill Press, Cotton Trade Journal, and Oil Mill Gazetteer.

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.