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258 items
Praktisches Handbuch des Zeugdrucks
- 1905
Sample book containing 158 fabric samples with displaying a wide variety of printed patterns with recipes and methods. The final pages of the book include a series of advertisements for several dyestuff companies.
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20 items
Tabellarische Uebersicht über die künstlichen organischen Farbstoffe und ihre Anwendung in Färberei und Zeugdruck
- Tabular Overview of Artificial Organic Dyes and Their Use in Dyeing and Fabric Printing
- 1905
Pamphlet containing 82 dyed fabric samples organized in a table. The table provides the trade name of the dye used, application instructions, and colorfastness observations. Dyes shown include diazo dyes, trisazo dyes,…
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15 items
Acid Colors on Piece Goods
- After 1900 – before 1950
Sample book containing dyeing instructions and 54 mounted fabric swatches dyed with National Aniline & Chemical Company manufactured dyes. Consists of one cardboard leaf that folds out into 9 sections.
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172 items
Les Produits Chimiques et les Matières Colorantes: Le Blanchiment, la Teinture, et l'Impression des Fibres Textiles
- Chemical Products and Coloring Materials: Bleaching, Dyeing, and Printing of Textile Fibers
- 1901 – 1902
1901 issue of a French periodical concerned with the dyeing of textiles. The content is divided into four parts: a reflection on universal exhibitions, in particular, the Universal Exhibition of Paris 1900; chemical…
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2 items
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
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4 items
Hanson's Magic Corn Salve
- After 1884 – before 1925
Small orange box containing a topical rub intended to treat corns, bunions, and warts.
Willis Tracy Hanson, Sr. (1858-1933) was a New York businessman known for selling patent medicines. These remedies could be…
- Manufacturer W.T. Hanson Co.
- Subject Drugs, W.T. Hanson Co., Quacks and quackery, Pharmaceutical industry, Warts, Bunion
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4 items
Loxol Pain-Expeller
- Circa 1900
Glass bottle of F. Ad. Richter brand "pain expeller" medicine.
Friedrich Adolf Richter (1846-1910) was a German businessman and founder of F. Ad. Richter & Cie, a producer of pharmaceuticals, music boxes, gramophones,…
- Manufacturer F. Ad. Richter & Co.
- Subject Drugs, F. Ad. Richter & Co., Quacks and quackery, Herbs--Therapeutic use, Analgesics, Pharmaceutical industry
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7 items
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for Menopause and Menstruation
- After 1900 – before 1968
Lydia E. Pinkham brand "Vegetable Compound", containing extract of Piscidia Erythrina (Jamaica Dogwood), Asclepias Tuberosa (Pleurisy Root), Cimicifuga Racemosa (Black Cohosh), Vitamin B1, Dandelion, and other…
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156 items
Echtheits - Tabellen der Substantiven Baumwollfarbstoffe
- Authenticity Tables of Substantive Cotton Dyes
- 1900
A tabular overview of the field of substantive cotton dyes. Substantive dyes, also referred to as direct dyes, become chemically fixed to textile fibers without the aid of a mordant. Contains dyed and mounted cotton…
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74 items
Benzo Colours on Cotton Cloth
- 1900 – 1950
Sample book from the Bayer Company, Inc. — the North American extension of the German company, Farbenfabriken vorm. Friedrich Bayer & Co.—containing mounted dyed yarn and cotton thread samples. Bayer & Co. was the first…
- Creator Of Work Bayer Company, Inc.
- Publisher Bayer Company, Inc.
- Subject Dyes and dyeing, Farbenfabriken vorm. Friedrich Bayer & Co., Dyes and dyeing--Cotton
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40 items
Benzidinfarben auf Baumwollstoft
- Benzidine Colours on Cotton Cloth
- 1901
Sample book containing 495 cotton samples dyed with Friedrich Bayer & Co. brand benzidine-based dyes. Benzidine is a synthesized substance that was commonly used in the preparation of direct dyes, or dyes which do not…
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262 items
The Seven Food Colors
- 1907
Notebook in which Charles F. Chandler (1836-1925) has pasted an assortment of government regulations and other items of interest related to food inspection and public health. Alongside these printed regulations are…
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4 items
Tintex Armor Gray Fabric Dye
- After 1900 – before 1933
A small, cardboard, Tintex brand dye box printed with an illustration of a woman holding a garment over a sink. Contained a small paper packet, pictured on the right, that contains the powdered fabric dye. Dye…
- Creator Of Work Park & Tilford Company
- Subject Dyes and dyeing, Dyes and dyeing--Textile fibers, Dyes and dyeing--Chemistry, Dyes and dyeing, Domestic
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2 items
Tintex Mistique Stocking Dye
- After 1900 – before 1933
A small, orange, Tintex brand dye box with an illustration of a pair of legs wearing stockings. A folded instruction sheet is included in the box.
Dyes are charged, water-soluble, organic compounds that chemically bind…
- Creator Of Work Park & Tilford Company
- Subject Dyes and dyeing, Dyes and dyeing--Textile fibers, Dyes and dyeing--Chemistry, Dyes and dyeing, Domestic
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2 items
Tintex Orchid (Lavender) Dye
- After 1900 – before 1933
A small gray box with an illustration of a woman holding a garment over a dye bath. Contained a small paper packet, pictured on the right, that contains the powdered fabric dye. Dye instructions are printed on the…
- Creator Of Work Park & Tilford Company
- Subject Dyes and dyeing, Dyes and dyeing--Textile fibers, Dyes and dyeing, Domestic, Dyes and dyeing--Chemistry
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Hobson's Tolu Balsam with Lobelia, Tartar Emetic and Chloroform
- After 1901 – before 1950
Box containing Dr. Hobson's "Tolu Balsam with Lobelia, Tartar Emetic, and Chloroform" cough syrup. According to the packaging, the use of this product is for the "relief of cough due to colds."
Brothers Henry and…
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2 items
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…
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3 items
Letter to Georg Bredig from his nephew, November 1908
- 1908-Nov-26
Letter addressed to Georg Bredig (1868-1944) from a relative, presumably his nephew. The writer discusses his studies in Berlin, scientific work, travel plans, and provides an update on his father's health.
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Postcard from Ernst von Meyer to Georg Bredig, February 1901
- 1901-Feb-24
Ernst von Meyer (1847-1916), a German chemist and historian of chemistry, thanks Georg Bredig (1868-1944) for sending his treatise "Anorganische Fermente" (Inorganic Ferments).
- Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Subject Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Meyer, Ernst von, 1847-1916, Enzymes
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Letter from Georg Lunge to Georg Bredig, February 1901
- 1901-Feb-23
Georg Lunge (1839-1923), a German chemist working at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, writes to his colleague Georg Bredig (1868-1944) to suggest using platinum salt to obtain a purer form of carbon monoxide…
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Letter from Svante Arrhenius to Georg Bredig, January 20, 1900
- 1900-Jan-20
Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927), a Swedish scientist who made significant contributions to the fields of chemistry and physics, writes a letter to his friend and colleague Georg Bredig (1868-1944) to convey a New Year's…
- Creator Of Work Arrhenius, Svante, 1859-1927
- Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Subject Arrhenius, Svante, 1859-1927, Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Auroras, Nernst, Walther, 1864-1941, Sweden--Stockholm
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6 items
Review by R.F. Fuchs of Georg Bredig's "Anorganische Fermente"
- 1902
R.F. Fuchs’ handwritten 1902 article in the Biologisches Centralblatt examines the similarities between colloid solutions and enzymes, with a focus on experiments conducted by Georg Bredig (1868-1944) and colleagues.
…- Author Fuchs, R.F.
- Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Subject Colloids, Enzymes, Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Science publishing
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4 items
Letter from Georg Bredig to Walter Gebhardt
- 1908-Apr-25
Georg Bredig (1868-1944) thanks his relative Walter Gebhard for explaining to him the physiology of snails. The letter is in draft form and illegible at some points.
- Addressee Gebhardt, Walter, 1870-1918
- Author Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Subject Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Snails, Mollusks--Physiology, Gebhardt, Walter, 1870-1918
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Letter from Georg Bredig to Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff, June 1905
- 1905-Jun-18
Letter from Georg Bredig (1868-1944 ) to his colleague, Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff (1852-1911) , a Dutch physical chemist. Bredig seeks advice for finding an example of an optically active catalyst acting on optically…
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Letter from Heinrich J. Goldschmidt to Georg Bredig, February 3, 1900
- 1900-Feb-01
In a letter to Georg Bredig (1868-1944), Heinrich Goldschmidt (1857-1937), an Austrian chemist who spent his career at the University of Oslo in Norway, describes working on a scientific method developed by their…