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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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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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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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Letter from H. Brandt to Georg Bredig, November 19, 1917
- 1917-Nov-19
H. Brandt informs Georg Bredig (1868-1944) that he is sending him a mathematical book “Graphic Methods” by the German mathematician, Carl Runge (1856-1927). Brandt additionally recommends two other mathematical…
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Letter from Fritz Ullmann to Georg Bredig, July 1918
- 1918-Jul-16
Fritz Ullmann (1875-1939), a German chemist and the editor of a technical encyclopedia of chemistry, thanks Georg Bredig (1868-1944) for writing an entry on catalysts. Ullmann additionally provides references and…
- Author Ullmann, Fritz, 1875-1939
- Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Subject Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Catalysts, Encyclopedias, Science publishing, Ullmann, Fritz, 1875-1939
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Letter to Rosa Bredig regarding the baptism of Max Bredig, October 25, 1916
- 1916-Oct-25
A clergyman in Heidelberg informs Rosa Bredig (1877-1933) of the baptismal records of her son, Max Bredig (1902-1977).
- Addressee Bredig, Rosa, 1877-1933
- Subject Bredig, Max Albert, 1902-1977, Bredig, Rosa, 1877-1933
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Postcard from Otto Bütschli to Georg Bredig, December 1917
- 1917-Dec-13
Otto Bütschli (1848-1920), a prominent German zoologist and professor at the University of Heidelberg, expresses his gratitude to Georg Bredig (1868-1944) for his kind birthday greeting, and wishes him good health.
- Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Author Butschli, O. (Otto), 1848-1920
- Subject Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Butschli, O. (Otto), 1848-1920
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Envelope from Fritz Haber to Georg Bredig
- 1918-Apr-25
Envelope belonging to a letter from the German chemist and Nobel Prize winner, Fritz Haber (1868-1934), which is addressed to his friend and colleague, Georg Bredig (1868-1944). At the time, Haber was serving as a…
- Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Creator Of Work Haber, Fritz, 1868-1934
- Subject Haber, Fritz, 1868-1934, Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, World War (1914-1918)
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Insuring the To-morrow of the American Chemical Industry
- 1919
Work describing the advancement of the American chemical industry during the 1910s. Underscores the importance of sustaining the industry's success through advertisement and marketing. Provides metrics to illustrate the…
- Publisher Literary Digest
- Subject Chemical industry, World War (1914-1918), Advertising, Marketing
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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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Postcard from Svante Arrhenius to Georg Bredig, July 1918
- 1918-Jul-03
Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927), a Swedish chemist and the Nobel Prize Winner for Chemistry in 1903, explains to his friend and colleague Georg Bredig (1868-1944) various calculations for an experiment that he recently…
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Letter from Ernest Solvay to Georg Bredig, May 1918
- 1918-May-25
Ernest Solvay (1838-1922), a Belgian chemist, thanks Georg Bredig for his correspondence and expresses his mutual sadness about the travesties of the First World War.
- Author Solvay, Ernest, 1838-1922
- Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Subject Solvay, Ernest, 1838-1922, Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, World War (1914-1918)
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13 items
Standard Color Card of America,
- Issued by the Textile Color Card Association of the U. S., Inc.
- 1916
Work intended to “standardize colors for the Textile and allied industries so that the standard name or standard number will always signify the color so designated in this card.” This work and its subsequent editions…
- Creator Of Work Textile Color Card Association of the United States
- Publisher Textile Color Card Association of the United States
- Subject Colors, Textile industry, Dyes and dyeing, Dyes and dyeing--Textile fibers, Color Association of the United States, Textile Color Card Association of the United States
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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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Rosa and Max Bredig
- After 1915 – before 1933
Photograph of Rosa Bredig (1877-1933) standing against an outdoor wall with her son Max Bredig (1902-1977).
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Letter from Bernhard Rathke to Georg Bredig, April 1916
- 1916-Apr-02
Bernhard Rathke (1840-1923), a German chemist, asks Georg Bredig (1868-1944) to forward a card to Bredig's mother, Ernestine. Rathke expresses the hope that Ernestine's health has improved since her visit with him in…
- Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Author Rathke, Heinrich Bernhard, 1840-1923
- Subject Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Rathke, Bernhard, 1840-1923
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TNT; Trinitrotoluenes and Mono- and Dinitrotoluenes, Their Manufacture and Properties
- 1918
A technical work primarily concerning TNT, or trinitrotoluene. According to the author in his introduction, the work is intended to "gather together and correlate all accessible information on [trinitroluene, its…
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Postcard from Max Planck to Georg Bredig, January 1912
- 1918-Jan-29
Max Planck (1858-1947), a German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918, informs Georg Bredig (1869-1944) that he will send Bredig copies of his last lecture at…
- Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Author Planck, Max, 1858-1947
- Subject Planck, Max, 1858-1947, Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft