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The Duplicates . . . That Didn't!
- 1952
Color print advertisement for the General Aniline & Film Corporation and its standardization of colored dye batches for clothes and textiles. An illustration depicts a man analyzing a potentiometer above a dye vat for a…
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5 Weeks of Sunshine . . . Every Day!
- 1950
Color advertisement for the General Aniline & Film Corporation describing their fadeometer testing program. A fadeometer is an accelerated aging testing device that measures the colorfastness of a material - in this…
- Creator Of Work General Aniline & Film Corporation
- Publisher Time, Inc.
- Subject Colorfastness (Textiles)--Testing, Colorfastness (Textiles), Photochemistry, Light, Color, Scientists, Black, African American scientists
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22 items
Das Deutsche Farbenbuch
- The German Color Book
- 1923 – 1926
German publication features numerous color charts with painted color swatches from various German paint manufacturers. Book content includes backgrounds and information on purchasing colorants and paints; colors and…
- Author Trillich, Heinrich
- Publisher Heller, B.
- Subject Color, Paint, Varnish and varnishing, Varnish industry, Paint industry and trade
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64 items
Die Farbenfibel
- The Color Guide
- 1921
Digitized in entirety, this German color guide features painted color swatches throughout the text. Sections include achromatic and chromatic colors, bright and dark shades, murky colors, as well as color harmony.
- Author Ostwald, Wilhelm, 1853-1932
- Publisher Unesma
- Subject Color, Colors--Analysis, Color--Analysis, Ostwald, Wilhelm, 1853-1932
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26 items
Extraordinary Facts Relating to the Vision of Colours: With Observations
- 1794
Author John Dalton outlines his own red-green color blindness discovered through botanical studies of flower hues. Blank endpapers omitted during digitization.
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Diagrams from observation of colors visible in Muscovy glass and other thin bodies
- 1665
Engravings from Schem. VI of the first edition of Robert Hooke's seminal volume, Micrographia : or, Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses. With observations and inquiries thereupon.…
- Author Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703
- Printer Martyn, J., Allestry, J.
- Subject Scientific illustration, Muscovite--Analysis, Natural history, Microscopy, Magnifying glasses, Color, Muscovite, Microscopes
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13 items
Painting and Decorating Working Methods: A Text Book for the Apprentice and Journeyman House Painter and Decorator
- Lesson 12: Color Mixing
- 1922
Digitized content includes the title page and a lesson on the mixing of colored paints from Painting and Decorating Working Methods: A Text Book for the Apprentice and Journeyman House Painter and Decorator. Includes a…
- Contributor Vanderwalker, F.N. (Fred Norman), 1885-1945
- Creator Of Work Painting & Decorating Contractors of America
- Subject Color, Painting, Paint
