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52 items
Greene Family Account Book
- 1855 – 1876
Notebook containing dyed yarn samples and corresponding handwritten dye recipes.
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2 items
Photograph of Paula Haber
- Circa 1858 – 1868
Photographic negative of Paula Haber (1844-1868), mother of the Nobel Prize-winning German chemist, Fritz Haber (1868-1934). Paula died three weeks after childbirth due to complications with her pregnancy. Her son,…
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2 items
Barlow's Indigo Blue dye
- 1860s
Cardboard box which at one time contained two dozen, wooden dye containers sealed with paper labels. Each contained an indigo fabric dye puck.
Indigo is among the oldest dyes to be used for textile dyeing and printing.…
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5 items
Italian dyer's notebook
- Autograph manuscript
- Circa 1856 – circa 1866
This warped and worn nineteenth-century Italian manuscript appears to be a working manual and color inventory of a wool dyer in mid-nineteenth-century Italy. The handwritten entries are dated between 1856 and 1866,…
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72 items
Lectures on Coal Tar Colours and on Recent Improvements and Progress in Dyeing and Calico Printing
- Embodying Copious Notes Taken at the Last London International Exhibition and Illustrated with Numberous Patterns of Fabrics Dyed with Aniline and Other Colours
- 1860s
Frederick Crace Calvert (1819–1873) was a professor of chemistry at the Royal Institution, Manchester. From 1835 to 1846 he lived in France, studying chemistry under the chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786-1889), who…
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2 items
Frau Ernestine Bredig
- After 1847 – before 1930
Seated black and white portrait of Frau Ernestine Bredig (1847-1930). Little is known about Bredig as an individual, except that she was the mother of physical chemist Georg Bredig (1868-1944).
- Subject Bredig, Ernestine, 1847-1930, Portraits
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12 items
Michael Faraday : Man of Science
- After 1865 – before 1929
A biographical account of the life and accomplishments of Michael Faraday (1791-1867), an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. Digitized content includes the work's…
- Author Jerrold, Walter, 1865-1929
- Publisher Fleming H. Revell
- Subject Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867, Physicists, Lectures and lecturing, Electromagnetism, Electrochemistry
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15 items
Copper Smelting in Japan
- After 1830 – before 1870
A finely illustrated Japanese scroll on paper with manuscript notes depicting the Nanban-Buki method of separating copper from silver (copper smelting). The scroll depicts every step of smelting using the "Nanban-Buki"…
- Subject Copper smelting, Forging, Scrolls, Japanese, Copper, Metallurgy
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15 items
The Story of Ramie From Seed to Finished Garment Book 5
- Circa 1820 – 1870
Volume five of five brocade-bound sets of 60 Chinese watercolor paintings. The watercolors show, in chronological order, the process of producing Ramie cloth, a silk-like fabric, in China during the 1820s. The…
- Artist Studio of Sunqua
- Subject Art, Chinese, Handmade paper, Ramie, Textile crafts, Textile fabrics
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15 items
The Story of Ramie From Seed to Finished Garment Book 4
- Circa 1820 – 1870
Volume four of five brocade-bound sets of 60 Chinese watercolor paintings. The watercolors show, in chronological order, the process of producing Ramie cloth, a silk-like fabric, in China during the 1820s. The…
- Artist Studio of Sunqua
- Subject Art, Chinese, Handmade paper, Ramie, Textile crafts, Textile fabrics
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15 items
The Story of Ramie From Seed to Finished Garment Book 3
- Circa 1820 – 1870
Volume three of five brocade-bound sets of 60 Chinese watercolor paintings. The watercolors show, in chronological order, the process of producing Ramie cloth, a silk-like fabric, in China during the 1820s. The…
- Artist Studio of Sunqua
- Subject Art, Chinese, Handmade paper, Ramie, Textile crafts, Textile fabrics
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15 items
The Story of Ramie From Seed to Finished Garment Book 2
- Circa 1820 – 1870
Volume two of five brocade-bound sets of 60 Chinese watercolor paintings. The watercolors show, in chronological order, the process of producing Ramie cloth, a silk-like fabric, in China during the 1820s. The collection…
- Artist Studio of Sunqua
- Subject Art, Chinese, Handmade paper, Ramie, Textile crafts, Textile fabrics
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15 items
The Story of Ramie From Seed to Finished Garment Book 1
- Circa 1820 – 1870
Volume one of five brocade-bound sets of 60 Chinese watercolor paintings. The watercolors show, in chronological order, the process of producing Ramie cloth, a silk-like fabric, in China during the 1820s. The collection…
- Artist Studio of Sunqua
- Subject Art, Chinese, Handmade paper, Ramie, Textile crafts, Textile fabrics
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6 items
The Story of Ramie From Seed to Finished Garment
- Circa 1820 – 1870
A description of the steps in Ramie cloth production written to accompany a five-volume, brocade-bound set of 60 Chinese watercolor paintings. The watercolors show, in chronological order, the process of producing…
- Subject Art, Chinese, Handmade paper, Ramie, Textile crafts, Textile fabrics
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42 items
Études Sur Le Vin
- Ses Maladies, Causes Qui Les Provoquent, Procédés Nouveaux Pour le Conserver et Pour le Vieillir
- 1866
In 1863, Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) was commissioned by Emperor Napoleon III of France (1808-1873) to research the conditions under which wine is converted to vinegar. The result of this work was incorporated into this…
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11 items
Lecture tickets and announcements
- 1852 – 1887
Includes two tickets and an announcement for various lectures given by James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) at the University of Pennsylvania, an invitation to the wedding of Bessie and Arthur Van Harlingen, an advertisement…
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Letter from Edwin Montell to James Curtis Booth, December 15, 1866
- 1866-Dec-15
Letter of thanks from Edwin S. Montell to James Curtis Booth (1810-1888). Booth notes on the verso of that he is "selling a little gold" for Montell.
- Addressee Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
- Author Montell, Edwin
- Subject Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
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Letter from Edwin Montell to James Curtis Booth, December 6, 1866
- 1866-Dec-06
Edwin Montell informs James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) that he will send Booth a piece of gold to be coined.
- Addressee Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
- Author Montell, Edwin
- Subject Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
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5 items
Letter from James Curtis Booth to John Jay Knox
- 1866-Nov-23
James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) responds to an inquiry from John Jay Knox Jr. (1828-1892), an American financier, government official, and primary author of the Coinage Act of 1873, which discontinued the use of the…
- Author Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
- Addressee Knox, John Jay, 1828-1892
- Subject Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888, Half-dollar, Money, Foreign exchange
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Letter from John Jay Knox to James Curtis Booth
- 1866-Nov-19
Letter written by John Jay Knox Jr. (1828-1892), an American financier, government official, and primary author of the Coinage Act of 1873, to James Curtis Booth (1810-1888). Knox seeks to determine the relative values…
- Addressee Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
- Author Knox, John Jay, 1828-1892
- Subject Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888, Half-dollar, Money, Foreign exchange
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3 items
Letter from David Williams to James Curtis Booth
- 1866-Oct-25
David Williams expresses his wishes to be reinstated at the United States Mint to James Curtis Booth (1810-1888). Interior of the letter includes a recommendation for Mr. David Williams addressed to Booth from a Mr.…
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Letter from Joseph E. Hoven to James Curtis Booth, September 10, 1866
- 1866-Sep-10
Joseph E. Hoven follows up from his letters of September 3 and 5, 1866 regarding his application to the position of Chief Coiner at the United States Mint.
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Letter from Joseph E. Hoven to James Curtis Booth, September 5, 1866
- 1866-Sep-05
Joseph E. Hoven follows up from his letter of September 3rd, 1866 regarding his application to the position of Chief Coiner at the United States Mint.
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Letter from Joseph E. Hoven to James Curtis Booth, September 3, 1866
- 1866-Sep-03
An application for the position of United States Mint Chief Coiner.
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Letter from James Curtis Booth to Mr. S. M. Howell
- 1866-Jul-27
James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) writes to a Mr. S. M. Howell of Charlotte, North Carolina to suggest that Howell follow a rotation system for planting crops.
- Author Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
- Addressee Howell, S. M.
- Subject Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888, Crop rotation
