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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 Übersicht 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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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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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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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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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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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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2 items
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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Industrial Nature Cabinet Series Poster: Corn
- 1905
Educational poster with product samples attached. Samples include (top to bottom, left to right) Corn Oil, Crystal Glucose, Anhy. Sugar, C. Dextrine, Corn Flower, Climax Standard, Celluloid, Corn Rubber (missing),…
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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
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32 items
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…
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4 items
Letter from Richard Adolf Zsigmondy to Georg Bredig, October 1905
- 1905-Oct-23
In a letter to Georg Bredig (1868-1944), the Austrian chemist, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (1865-1929), discusses his recent work in the field of colloidal chemistry. In 1925, Zsigmondy was awarded the Nobel Prize in…
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2 items
Letter from Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom to Georg Bredig, April 1905
- 1905-Apr-14
Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom (1854-1907), a Dutch chemist, updates Georg Bredig (1869-1944) on recent scientific studies of solid, liquid, and vapor phases.
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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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167 items
The Calciminer's Handy Book
- 1907
Volume describes the properties, varieties, and application process of calcimine wall color treatment. The work includes color plates showing color relationships, Calcimo brand wall colors for sale from the Muralo…
- Author Nelson, Peter William, 1859-
- Publisher Muralo Company
- Subject Calcimining, Mural painting and decoration, Painting, Painting, Industrial, Plastering, Colors
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208 items
Blasting
- A Handbook for the Use of Engineers and Others Engages in Mining, Tunnelling, Quarrying, etc.
- 1906
Second edition handbook for the assistance of laborers who conduct blasting operations and civil engineering work. Work is illustrated with black and white prints depicting machinery and diagrams, and includes three…
- Author Guttmann, Oscar, 1855-1910
- Publisher Charles Griffin & Company
- Subject Blasting, Blasting--Study and teaching, Explosives, Blasting--Equipment and supplies
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Letter from Georg Bredig to Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, 1906
- 1906
Georg Bredig (1868-1944) thanks his colleague, the Dutch physical chemist Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff (1852-1911), for hosting him in Heidelberg. Bredig additionally discusses his thoughts on surface tension in…