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52 items
Greene Family Account Book
- 1855 – 1876
Notebook containing dyed yarn samples and corresponding handwritten dye recipes.
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2 items
Photograph of Paula Haber
- Circa 1858 – 1868
Photographic negative of Paula Haber (1844-1868), mother of the Nobel Prize-winning German chemist, Fritz Haber (1868-1934). Paula died three weeks after childbirth due to complications with her pregnancy. Her son,…
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5 items
Italian Dyer's Notebook
- Autograph Manuscript
- Circa 1856 – circa 1866
This warped and worn nineteenth-century Italian manuscript appears to be a working manual and color inventory of a wool dyer in mid-nineteenth-century Italy. The handwritten entries are dated between 1856 and 1866,…
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174 items
Dyer's account book, Volume 1
- After 1855-Nov-29 – before 1864-Nov-10
The first of two highly legible British dyer's account journals. The journal lists recipes and the costs for materials used in the process of dyeing many kinds of cloth, "gum china blue," "sumac," "peachwood," etc.…
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239 items
Dyer's account book, Volume 2
- After 1855-Nov-29 – before 1864-Nov-10
The first of two highly legible British dyer's account journals. The journal lists recipes and the costs for materials used in the process of dyeing many kinds of cloth, "gum china blue," "sumac," "peachwood," etc.…
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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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15 items
Copper Smelting in Japan
- After 1830 – before 1870
A finely illustrated Japanese scroll on paper with manuscript notes depicting the Nanban-Buki method of separating copper from silver (copper smelting). The scroll depicts every step of smelting using the "Nanban-Buki"…
- Subject Copper smelting, Forging, Scrolls, Japanese, Copper, Metallurgy
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15 items
The Story of Ramie From Seed to Finished Garment Book 5
- Circa 1820 – 1870
Volume five of five brocade-bound sets of 60 Chinese watercolor paintings. The watercolors show, in chronological order, the process of producing Ramie cloth, a silk-like fabric, in China during the 1820s. The…
- Artist Studio of Sunqua
- Subject Art, Chinese, Handmade paper, Ramie, Textile crafts, Textile fabrics
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15 items
The Story of Ramie From Seed to Finished Garment Book 4
- Circa 1820 – 1870
Volume four of five brocade-bound sets of 60 Chinese watercolor paintings. The watercolors show, in chronological order, the process of producing Ramie cloth, a silk-like fabric, in China during the 1820s. The…
- Artist Studio of Sunqua
- Subject Art, Chinese, Handmade paper, Ramie, Textile crafts, Textile fabrics
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15 items
The Story of Ramie From Seed to Finished Garment Book 3
- Circa 1820 – 1870
Volume three of five brocade-bound sets of 60 Chinese watercolor paintings. The watercolors show, in chronological order, the process of producing Ramie cloth, a silk-like fabric, in China during the 1820s. The…
- Artist Studio of Sunqua
- Subject Art, Chinese, Handmade paper, Ramie, Textile crafts, Textile fabrics
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15 items
The Story of Ramie From Seed to Finished Garment Book 2
- Circa 1820 – 1870
Volume two of five brocade-bound sets of 60 Chinese watercolor paintings. The watercolors show, in chronological order, the process of producing Ramie cloth, a silk-like fabric, in China during the 1820s. The collection…
- Artist Studio of Sunqua
- Subject Art, Chinese, Handmade paper, Ramie, Textile crafts, Textile fabrics
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15 items
The Story of Ramie From Seed to Finished Garment Book 1
- Circa 1820 – 1870
Volume one of five brocade-bound sets of 60 Chinese watercolor paintings. The watercolors show, in chronological order, the process of producing Ramie cloth, a silk-like fabric, in China during the 1820s. The collection…
- Artist Studio of Sunqua
- Subject Art, Chinese, Handmade paper, Ramie, Textile crafts, Textile fabrics
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6 items
The Story of Ramie From Seed to Finished Garment
- Circa 1820 – 1870
A description of the steps in Ramie cloth production written to accompany a five-volume, brocade-bound set of 60 Chinese watercolor paintings. The watercolors show, in chronological order, the process of producing…
- Subject Art, Chinese, Handmade paper, Ramie, Textile crafts, Textile fabrics
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222 items
The Annual Report of the Physician and Superintendent of the Eastern Asylum, in the city of Williamsburg, Virginia, for 1842
- 1843 – 1865
Volume containing several publications bound together: The Annual report of the court of directors of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum (1851); Twenty-fourth annual report of the President and Directors of the Western Lunatic…
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11 items
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…
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2 items
Booth, Garrett & Blair, Analytical and Consulting Chemists letterhead and envelope
- 1850s (Letterhead)
- After 1878 (Envelope)
Letterhead for the Laboratory for Practical and Analytical Chemistry and envelope for Booth, Garrett & Blair, Analytical and Consulting Chemists.
In 1836, James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) started a student laboratory in…
- Author Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
- Subject Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888, Chemists, Letterheads
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3 items
Letter from Howell Cobb to James Curtis Booth, January 12, 1859
- 1859-Jan-12
Howell Cobb (1815 - 1865), United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1857-1860, writes to James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) responding to a statement made by Booth and praising his work with fusible alloys.
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Letter from J. G. Washington to James Curtis Booth, September 24, 1855
- 1855-Sep-24
J. G. Washington, of the United States Treasury Department, writes to James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) with an order for fusible alloys from Wheeling, West Virginia.
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Letter from J. G. Washington to James Curtis Booth, August 10, 1855
- 1855-Aug-10
J. G. Washington, of the United States Treasury Department, writes to James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) to confirm Booth's bills have been received.
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Letter from J. G. Washington to James Curtis Booth, April 26, 1855
- 1855-Apr-26
J. G. Washington, of the United States Treasury Department, writes to James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) with an order for fusible alloys from New Orleans.
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Letter from J. G. Washington to James Curtis Booth, June 1, 1855
- 1855-Jun-01
J. G. Washington, of the United States Treasury Department, writes to James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) to discuss a successful test of Booth's alloys.
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Letter from J. G. Washington to James Curtis Booth, May 3, 1855
- 1855-May-03
J. G. Washington, of the United States Treasury Department, writes to James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) with the news that the Attorney General feels that there is no infringement upon Evan's patent.
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2 items
Letter from J. G. Washington to James Curtis Booth, March 19, 1855
- 1855-Mar-19
J. G. Washington, of the United States Treasury Department, writes to inform James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) that the Attorney General is to be consulted with regard to Evan's fusible alloy production patent and any…
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3 items
Letter from James Curtis Booth to James B. Guthrie, March 13, 1855
- 1855-Mar-13
James Curtis Booth (1810-1888), melter and refiner of the United States Mint, writes to James Guthrie (1794-1869), Secretary of the Treasury, to discuss the production of fusible alloys.
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3 items
Letter from James Curtis Booth to James B. Guthrie, March 27, 1855
- 1855-Mar-27
James Curtis Booth (1810-1888), melter and refiner of the United States Mint, writes to James Guthrie (1794-1869), Secretary of the Treasury, to discuss the shipment of fusible alloys.
