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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
Letter from Mary A. Post to James Curtis Booth, June 22, 1879
- 1879-Jun-22
Mary A. Post, a cousin of James Curtis Booth (1810-1888), writes to Booth concerning family matters.
- Addressee Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
- Author Post, Mary A.
- Subject Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888, Post, Mary A.
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Letter from Frederick Sylvester & Brother to James Curtis Booth, October 28, 1880
- 1880-Oct-28
A follow-up to the letters of August 13 and 19 to James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) concerning the sale of some property. A bill for the services of Frederick Sylvester & Brother is rendered.
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Letter from F. C. Yarnall to James Curtis Booth
- 1879-Nov-12
A bill for an order of wines.
- Addressee Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
- Author Yarnall, F. C.
- Subject Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888, Wine industry, Wine
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Letter from Samuel W. Levis to James Curtis Booth, April 1883
- 1883-Apr-26 – 1883-Apr-28
Samuel W. Levis writes to James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) to enquire after land for sale.
- Author Levis, Samuel W.
- Addressee Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
- Subject Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888, Real property, Levis, Samuel W.
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2 items
Letter from Booth, Garrett, & Blair, Analytical and Consulting Chemists, to James Curtis Booth
- 1885-May-16
In 1836, James Booth started a student laboratory in Philadelphia where men could obtain practical training in chemistry - especially analytical chemistry - by personal instruction. With him were associated successively…
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Letter from W.C. Spruance to James Curtis Booth
- 1886-May-07
William C. Spruance (1831-1913) Attorney at Law, suggests James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) write to Joseph P. Comegys (1813-1893) for geological information.
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Letter from Henry Carrington Bolton to James Curtis Booth, June 4, 1883
- 1883-Jun-04
Henry Carrington Bolton (1843-1903), an American chemist, professor of science at Trinity College, and relative of James Curtis Booth (1810-1888), writes to Booth, mentioning his fatigue from proofreading his Catalogue…
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Letter from Joseph Henry to James Curtis Booth, December 28, 1875
- 1875-Dec-28
Joseph Henry (1797-1878), Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, writes to James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) with a request for a photograph.
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Letter from Henry Carrington Bolton to James Curtis Booth, March 8, 1882
- 1882-Mar-08
Henry Carrington Bolton (1843-1903), an American chemist, professor of science at Trinity College, and relative of James Curtis Booth (1810-1888), invites Booth to attend a lecture by Bolton on glaciers and asks if…
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Letter from Frederick Sylvester & Brother to James Curtis Booth, July 26, 1880
- 1880-Jul-26
An acknowledgment.
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Letter from C.M. Potter to James Curtis Booth
- 1887-Apr-25
C.M. Potter writes James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) a thank-you note for a donation made to the Hobart College Library.
- Author Potter, C. M.
- Addressee Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
- Subject Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888, Charity, Hobart College
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Letter from Samuel W. Levis to James Curtis Booth, April 30, 1883
- 1883-Apr-30
Samuel W. Levis writes to James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) following his letter of early April to enquire after land for sale.
- Author Levis, Samuel W.
- Addressee Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
- Subject Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888, Real property, Levis, Samuel W.
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156 items
The Dyer's Practical Guide : A Treatise on the Art of Dyeing Wool, Shoddy and Cotton
- 1884
Treatise containing "practical knowledge" on dyeing for manufacturers, with sections on mordants, chemicals used in dyeing, wool scouring, extracting cotton from wool, and 253 dye recipes for wool, cotton, and shoddy…
- Author Sherry, Frank
- Publisher Franklin Steam Printing House
- Subject Dyes and dyeing, Dyes and dyeing--Wool, Dyes and dyeing--Cotton, Formulas, recipes, etc.
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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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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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Letter from Anna C. Faber to "Maggie"
- 1875-Mar-20
Letter from Anna C. Faber, grand-niece of James Curtis Booth (1810-1888), to "my dear cousin Maggie." Mentions her Aunt Anna, likely Anna Faber Harnickell, Booth's niece.
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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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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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Senshokuhō : Shinhatsumei jitchi keiken
- 染色法 : 新発明実地経験
- Dyeing Method : Practical Experience of New Invention
- 1887 (明 20)
First edition work on dyeing techniques. This work contains 12 plates illustrating reproductions of dyed fabrics and color palettes. Illustrations in the text depict machinery and other dyeing apparatus.
The author,…
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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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80 items
A Manual of Dyeing and Dyeing Receipts, Comprising a System of Elementary Chemistry as Applied to Dyeing
- With Receipts for the General Reader for Dyeing and Colour on Cotton, Silk, and Wool, which Colooured Pattern of Cloth of Each Fabric
- 1875
The third edition of a work, updated from the first to include an updated description of contemporary dyeing machinery, advances in science, and updated nomenclature and chemical formula. According to the author, the…
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The Techno-chemical Receipt Book
- Containing several thousand receipts, covering the latest, most important and most useful discoveries in chemical technology, and their practical application in the arts and the industries
- 1886
An extensive recipe book, principally derived from German technical literature, includes "an accurate and compendious collection of approved receipts and processes of practical application in the [chemical] industries…
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288 items
The Fairy-Land of Science
- 1883
Arabella Burton Buckley (1840-1929) was a writer and science educator who championed Darwinian evolution as opposed to the contemporary emphasis on competition and physical survival. This work, one of Buckley's…