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Lablache Face Powder
- 1910s
An empty circular white cardboard box with gold rims that held a face powder. The paper label is decorated with a winged cherub holding aloft a Lablache Face Powder banner with the words "a harmless toilet powder"…
- Manufacturer Ben Levy Co.
- Subject Cosmetics, Cosmetics industry, Powder boxes (Cosmetics containers), Powders, Packaging
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James Wilson (Secretary of Agriculture 1897-1913)
- 1910s
Photograph of James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture from 1897 to 1913, seated in a horse-drawn carriage with an unidentified African American driver. Wilson's tenure as Secretary is regarded as a period distinguished…
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Galvanic batteries
- 1910s – circa
Devices converting chemical reactions to electric energy.
- Creator Of Work Emil Greiner Company
- Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Electric batteries, Chemical apparatus
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Edgar Fahs Smith and students at the University of Pennsylvania
- 1910s
Group portrait of chemist and educator Edgar Fahs Smith (1854-1928) and University of Pennsylvania students posed in front of what is believed to be the Harrison Chemical Laboratory building. Over the course of his…
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Autographed portrait of Richard Lorenz
- 1910s
Richard Lorenz (1863-1929), an Austrian physical chemist, presents a signed portrait to his colleague, Georg Bredig (1868-1944). Lorenz was a professor of chemistry at the Eidgenössische Polytechnikum in Zurich,…
- Contributor Lorenz, Richard, 1858-1915
- Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Subject Lorenz, Richard, 1858-1915
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Absorption apparatus
- 1910s – circa
Various apparatus and pipettes for absorption and determination of gases.
5273. For estimation of methane, with platinum spiral.
5274. For determination of oxygen by the exact method.
5280. Palladium Tube.
5282.…- Creator Of Work Emil Greiner Company
- Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Pipettes, Chemical apparatus
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Mexican Brand Insect Fluid Label
- Circa 1910 – circa 1915
Printed bottle label for Mexican Brand Insect Fluid, depicting a woman using the product in a bedroom, with the tagline "What is Home without a Clean Bed."
- Subject Public health, DDT (Insecticide), Insecticides, Toxins
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Container of Brunswick Dental Floss
- 1900 – 1915
Metal canister/dispenser of waxed dental floss; 150 yards; removable cap top.
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Laboratory Wood Work : Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Physiography, Drawing Tables, Office Furniture, Domestic Science, Manual Training, Benches, etc.
- After 1910 – before 1913
An early 20th-century catalog of laboratory furniture equipment manufactured and sold by Leonard Peterson & Co. The fully illustrated catalog primarily advertises custom-built benches and cabinetry for science…
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The Life of Pasteur
- 1911
Cover, frontismatter, frontispiece and title page have been digitized from this biography of French chemist, biologist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur (1822-1895). He is credited for discovering the principles of…
- Author Vallery-Radot, René, 1853-1933
- Publisher Constable
- Subject Pasteur, Louis, 1822-1895, Scientists, Chemists--Biography
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Spectrometers with Polarizing Attachment and Camera Attachment
- 1911
Top figure is a laboratory spectrometer with a polarizing attachment. Lower figure is a spectrometer with a third arm and camera attachment.
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Soda Fountain Beverages : A Practical Receipt Book for Druggists, Chemists, Confectioners, and Venders of Soda Water
- 1911
Volume containing "recipes to improve the taste and sanitary effects of drinks." This concise manual for vendors of soda water presents various methods of preparation for soda fountain beverages, syrups, fruit essences,…
- Editor Dubelle, G. H. (George H.)
- Publisher Spon & Chamberlain, E. & F.N. Spon
- Subject Carbonated beverages, Soda fountains, Flavoring essences, Recipes, Beverages
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Small Comparator
- 1911
An "instrument intended for measuring spectra photographs, gratings, divided scales, or such objects which can be focused by the microscope and will allow rapid measurements of the highest possible accuracy." The design…
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Report on the Explosives Industry in the Dominion of Canada
- 1911
A report on the Canadian Explosives industry conducted by Captain Arthur Desborough (1868-1940), Inspector of Explosives, addressed to Dr. Eugene Haanel (1841-1927), Director of Mines. Desborough begins his report by…
- Author Desborough, Arthur, 1868-1940
- Publisher Canadian Government Printing Bureau
- Contributor Geological Survey of Canada
- Subject Explosives, Explosives industry, Snelling, Walter O., Haanel, Eugene, 1841-1927, Desborough, Arthur, 1868-1940, Geological Survey of Canada, Explosives--Safety measures, Explosives--Law and legislation
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Portrait of Louis Pasteur
- Part of The Life of Pasteur
- 1886 (Date of photograph)
- 1911 (Date of publication)
Half-length printed photographic reproduction portrait of French chemist, biologist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) by French photographer Paul Nadar (1820-1910). Pasteur is credited with discovering the…
- Author Vallery-Radot, René, 1853-1933
- Publisher Constable
- Photographer Nadar, Paul, 1856-1939
- Subject Pasteur, Louis, 1822-1895, Portraits, Scientists, Nadar, Paul, 1856-1939, Chemists
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Photographs of chemists at Technische Hochschule, in Zürich, Switzerland
- 1911
Two photographs of physical and electrochemists at the Technische Hochschule, in Zürich, Switzerland. A handwritten inscription indicates those pictured. The photo on the left includes from left to right standing, "I…
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Photographs of a lecture at the University of Zurich
- 1911
Postcard featuring two photographs of a lecture hall at the University of Zurich. The photographs show a classroom set up for a lecture on high voltage flames.
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Order forms from the Société Française de Physique
- Circa 1911
Order forms for publications by the Société Française de Physique collected by Georg Bredig (1868-1944). The French Physical Society was founded in 1873.
- Creator Of Work Société Française de Physique
- Subject Physics--Societies, etc., Science--Societies, etc.
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Nostrums and Quackery
- Articles on the Nostrum Evil, Quackery and Allied Matters Affecting the Public Health; Reprinted... from the Journal of the American Medical Association
- 1911
Volume two of three, compiled by the Journal of the American Medical Association. The volume consists of a collection of pseudo-scientific printings outlining fraudulent medicinal treatments. The quackery included in…
- Author American Medical Association
- Editor Cramp, Arthur J. (Arthur Joseph), 1872-
- Subject Quacks and quackery, Patent medicines, Women's health services, Drugs, Therapeutics, Drugs, Nonprescription, Obesity--Treatment, Sexism in medicine, Drug addiction--Treatment, Public health, Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company
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Melloni's Apparatus
- 1911
"For studying the reflection, refraction, absorption and polarization of radiant heat."
- Creator Of Work Wm. Gaertner & Company
- Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Measuring instruments
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Littrow Spectroscope
- 1911
"The collimators and observing telescopes have apertures of 50mm., and focus by rack and pinion. Two 60 degree prisms of heavy flint glass and of 70mm. side are furnished with the instrument. The mirror may be used in…
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Ives Duplex Diffraction Spectroscope
- 1911
"This spectroscope will show the first order of spectrum all at once across the field of the eyepiece."