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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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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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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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The Annual Report of the Physician and Superintendent of the Eastern Asylum, in the city of Williamsburg, Virginia, for 1842
- 1843 – 1865
Volume containing several publications bound together: The Annual report of the court of directors of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum (1851); Twenty-fourth annual report of the President and Directors of the Western Lunatic…
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Booth, Garrett & Blair, Analytical and Consulting Chemists letterhead and envelope
- 1850s (Letterhead)
- After 1878 (Envelope)
Letterhead for the Laboratory for Practical and Analytical Chemistry and envelope for Booth, Garrett & Blair, Analytical and Consulting Chemists.
In 1836, James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) started a student laboratory in…
- Author Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
- Subject Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888, Chemists, Letterheads
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Letter from Campbell Morfit to James Curtis Booth, March 22, 1851
- 1851-Mar-22
Campbell Morfit (1820-1897), a distinguished chemist and co-editor with James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) of the Encyclopedia of Chemistry (1850), writes to Booth to discuss the notorious pamphlet of Richard Sears McCulloh…
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Letter from Campbell Morfit to James Curtis Booth, March 17, 1851
- 1851-Mar-17
Campbell Morfit (1820-1897), a distinguished chemist and co-editor with James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) of the Encyclopedia of Chemistry (1850), writes to Booth regarding a job he is doing. Morfit writes, “No one shall,…
- Author Morfit, Campbell, 1820-1897
- Addressee Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
- Subject Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888, Morfit, Campbell, 1820-1897, Chemists
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Letter from Campbell Morfit to James Curtis Booth, March 13, 1851
- 1851-Mar-13
Campbell Morfit (1820-1897), a distinguished chemist and co-editor with James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) of the Encyclopedia of Chemistry (1850), writes of an accidental inhalation of chemicals that almost proved fatal to…
- Author Morfit, Campbell, 1820-1897
- Addressee Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
- Subject Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888, Morfit, Campbell, 1820-1897, Chemists
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Letter from Campbell Morfit to James Curtis Booth, March 8, 1851
- 1851-Mar-08
Campbell Morfit (1820-1897), a distinguished chemist and co-editor with James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) of the Encyclopedia of Chemistry (1850), writes to Booth to request help locating some scientific articles.
- Author Morfit, Campbell, 1820-1897
- Addressee Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
- Subject Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888, Morfit, Campbell, 1820-1897, Chemists
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Letter from Campbell Morfit to James Curtis Booth, February 29, 1851
- 1851-Feb-29
Campbell Morfit (1820-1897), a distinguished chemist and co-editor with James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) of the Encyclopedia of Chemistry (1850), writes to Booth concerning Professor Joseph Henry (1797-1878), first…
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Letter from Campbell Morfit to James Curtis Booth, February 19, 1851
- 1851-Feb-19
Campbell Morfit (1820-1897), a distinguished chemist and co-editor with James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) of the Encyclopedia of Chemistry (1850), writes to Booth with more details of the disagreement with Joseph Henry…
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Letter from Campbell Morfit to Joseph Henry, February 18, 1851
- 1851-Feb-18
Campbell Morfit (1820-1897), a distinguished chemist and co-editor with James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) of the Encyclopedia of Chemistry (1850), writes to Joseph Henry (1797-1878), Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute,…
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Letter from Joseph Henry to Campbell Morfit, February 22, 1851
- 1851-Feb-22
Joseph Henry (1797-1878), Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, writes to Campbell Morfit (1820-1897), a distinguished chemist and co-editor with James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) of the Encyclopedia of Chemistry (1850).…
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Letter from Campbell Morfit to James Curtis Booth, February 10, 1851
- 1851-Feb-10
Campbell Morfit (1820-1897), a distinguished chemist and co-editor with James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) of the Encyclopedia of Chemistry (1850), writes to Booth about Richard Sears McCulloh (1818-1894) and his balking…
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Letter from J. Henry of the Smithsonian Institution to James Curtis Booth
- 1851-Jun-24
Comments and suggestions from Joseph Henry (1797–1878), the first Smithsonian Secretary and renowned physicist, for an article written by James Curtis Booth (1810-1888).
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Letter from R. B. Potts to James Curtis Booth
- 1851-Mar-08
James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) asked for advice concerning the production of Prussian Blue.
- Addressee Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
- Author Potts, Robert B.
- Subject Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888, Prussian blue
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Letter from J. W. Baird of the Smithsonian Institution to James Curtis Booth
- 1851-Apr-04
J. W. Baird of the Smithsonian Institution provides instructions to James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) for the printing of a report.
- Addressee Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
- Author Baird, J. W.
- Subject Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888, Baird, J. W., Smithsonian Institution
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Letter from M. F. Borzano to James Curtis Booth
- 1851-Apr-01
Discussion of a "McCulloh" process for refining of gold, named for Richard Sears McCulloh (1818 – 1894) an American civil engineer and pupil of James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) from 1838 to 1839.
