Date: 1882 to 1883 - Science History Institute Digital Collections Search Results

Very Poor Material for the New Party

1882-Aug-09

This illustration appeared as the front page of the New York Daily Graphic on August 9th, 1882. This political alchemist is a slick newspaperman with mutton chops, toiling in his laboratory to create the spirit of a…

Publisher New York Daily Graphic
Subject Alchemists, Caricatures and cartoons, Editorial cartoons, Political cartoons

2 items

Business correspondence

Letter from Samuel W. Levis to James Curtis Booth, April 1883

1883-Apr-26 – 1883-Apr-28

Samuel W. Levis writes to James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) to enquire after land for sale.

Author Levis, Samuel W.
Addressee Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
Subject Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888, Real property, Levis, Samuel W.

2 items

Personal correspondence

Letter from Henry Carrington Bolton to James Curtis Booth, June 4, 1883

1883-Jun-04

Henry Carrington Bolton (1843-1903), an American chemist, professor of science at Trinity College, and relative of James Curtis Booth (1810-1888), writes to Booth, mentioning his fatigue from proofreading his Catalogue…

Author Bolton, Henry Carrington, 1843-1903
Addressee Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
Subject Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888, Bolton, Henry Carrington, 1843-1903

3 items

Business correspondence

Letter from Henry Carrington Bolton to James Curtis Booth, March 8, 1882

1882-Mar-08

Henry Carrington Bolton (1843-1903), an American chemist, professor of science at Trinity College, and relative of James Curtis Booth (1810-1888), invites Booth to attend a lecture by Bolton on glaciers and asks if…

Author Bolton, Henry Carrington, 1843-1903
Addressee Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
Subject Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888, Bolton, Henry Carrington, 1843-1903

2 items

Business correspondence

Letter from Samuel W. Levis to James Curtis Booth, April 30, 1883

1883-Apr-30

Samuel W. Levis writes to James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) following his letter of early April to enquire after land for sale.

Author Levis, Samuel W.
Addressee Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
Subject Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888, Real property, Levis, Samuel W.

2 items

Vessels (Containers), Medical instruments and apparatus

Tailby-Nason's Mentho-Terpenol Pain Reliever

After 1880 – before 1970

Blue glass bottle, stained by residue from its contents, with metal screw cap lid and white paper label. The topical ointment once held in this bottle was intended for pain relief. According to the label, the ointment…

Creator Of Work Tailby-Nason Company
Subject Analgesics, Drugs, Quacks and quackery, Tailby-Nason Company

2 items

Vessels (Containers), Medical instruments and apparatus

Lydia E. Pinkham Menstrual Relief Tablets

After 1882 – before 1968

Lydia E. Pinkham brand menstrual pain relief tablets, containing extract of Piscidia Erythrina (Jamaica Dogwood), Asclepias Tuberosa (Pleurisy Root), Glycyrrhiza (Licorice), and Ferrous Sulfate.

Lydia E. Pinkham, née…

Creator Of Work Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company
Subject Analgesia, Analgesics, Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company, Pinkham, Lydia Estes, 1819-1883, Menstruation, Women--Health and hygiene, Women's health services, Herbs--Therapeutic use, Quacks and quackery

Artifacts, Vessels (Containers)

Strychnine Sulfate Tablets

After 1870 – before 1910

Bottle of Strychnine Sulfate tablets in a brown glass bottle with cork top closure.

Strychnine is a highly toxic, colorless, crystalline alkaloid used today as a pesticide for rodents or birds. When inhaled, swallowed,…

Creator Of Work Eli Lilly and Company
Subject Strychnine, Strychnine--Toxicology, Drugs, Eli Lilly and Company

32 items

Sample books, Publications

Indigo MLB auf Baumwolle : Indigo MLB on Cotton

After 1880 – before 1925

This sample book begins with a selection of recipes for the preparation of dye vats. Each recipe lists the solvents and solutes necessary to mix large-volume solutions of indigo textile dye using Indigo M.L.B. brand…

Author Farbwerke vorm. Meister Lucius & Brüning
Publisher H.A. Metz & Co
Subject Dyes and dyeing, Dyes and dyeing--Textile fibers, Dyes and dyeing--Cotton, Hoechst AG, Resist-dyed textiles

2 items

Photographs

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

288 items

Publications

The Fairy-Land of Science

1883

Arabella Burton Buckley (1840-1929) was a writer and science educator who championed Darwinian evolution as opposed to the contemporary emphasis on competition and physical survival. This work, one of Buckley's…

Author Buckley, Arabella B. (Arabella Burton), 1840-1929
Publisher E. Standford
Subject Science--Study and teaching, Education, Evolution, Buckley, Arabella B. (Arabella Burton), 1840-1929, Women in science, Environmental science, Earth sciences, Fairies

12 items

Publications

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

2 items

Glassware, Scientific apparatus and instruments

Kipp's Apparatus

Circa 1880 – 1920

A Kipp's apparatus, also called a Kipp generator, was an instrument designed for the preparation of small volumes of gases. The instrument was invented around 1844 by the Dutch pharmacist Petrus Jacobus Kipp (1808-1864)…

Creator Of Work Reading Scientific Company
Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Kipp, Petrus Jacobus, 1808-1864, Evaporation, Gases, Chemical apparatus, Laboratories--Equipment and supplies

Ephemera, Publications

Newspaper article about Fritz Haber

After 1868 – before 1934

Subject Haber, Fritz, 1868-1934, Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)

Artifacts, Scientific apparatus and instruments

Mortar and Pestles

After 1868 – before 1944

Two sets of mortar and pestles belonging to Georg Bredig (1868-1944). The larger is made of white porcelain and the smaller is made from agate. Mortar and pestles are used to manually grind or crush a sample into a fine…

Subject Mortar, Pestles, Laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Porcelain, Agates

2 items

Artifacts

Manual drafting set

After 1868 – before 1944

Georg Bredig's (1868-1944) drafting set. The tools are held in a rectangular case, lined with dark blue velvet.

Subject Tools--Drawings, Compasses (Mathematical instruments), Mathematical instruments, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944

11 items

Advertisements, Ephemera

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…

Contributor Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
Subject Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888, Lectures and lecturing, University of Pennsylvania, Weddings, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

2 items

Business correspondence

Envelope addressed to James Curtis Booth from R. B. Engle

1883-Sep-13

Addressee Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
Author Engle, R. B.
Subject Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888

2 items

Business correspondence

Receipt from J.W. Thomas of Chester Vallery Nurseries

1883-Dec-17

Creator Of Work Thomas, Joseph W.
Addressee Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
Subject Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888, Nurseries (Horticulture), Thomas, Joseph W.

Manuscripts

Plants Supplied by J.W. Thomas in 1882-3 that have Died or Did Not Begin to Grow

Circa 1883

Creator Of Work Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
Subject Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888, Nurseries (Horticulture), Thomas, Joseph W.

Business correspondence

Letter from J.W. Thomas to James Curtis Booth, December 17, 1883

1883-Dec-17

A note enclosing a bill for an order of maple trees.

Author Thomas, Joseph W.
Addressee Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
Subject Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888, Nurseries (Horticulture), Thomas, Joseph W.

2 items

Business correspondence

Letter from James Curtis Booth to J.W. Thomas, December 4, 1883

1883-Dec-04

James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) gives permission to Joseph W. Thomas to plant his Norway Maple trees if Thomas believes it to be appropriate this month.