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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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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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4 items
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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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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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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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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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
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Letter from Viktor Rothmund to Georg Bredig, November 1918
- 1918-Nov-24
Viktor Rothmund (1870-1927), a German chemist working in Prague, describes the perilous state of scientific activities at his university after the ravages of the First World War. He additionally mentions that he hopes…
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Letter from Viktor Rothmund to Georg Bredig
- 1910s
Viktor Rothmund (1870-1927), a German chemist, discusses colloidal solutions with his colleague, Georg Bredig (1868-1944), and mentions how the field of physical chemistry is negatively perceived at the University of…
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Letter from Otto Bütschli to Georg Bredig, May 1918
- 1918-May-28
Otto Bütschli (1848-1920), a German zoologist and professor at the University of Heidelberg, thanks Georg Bredig (1868-1944) for attending a celebration to unveil his commemorative bust.
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68 items
The Theory and Practice of Color
- 1918
Work intended to convey to the average person the laws and principles of color to improve their appreciation, understanding, and employment of color in daily life. Includes nine pages of color samples that collectively…
- Author Snow, Bonnie E., -1925, Froehlich, Hugo B., 1862-1925
- Publisher L. Prang & Co.
- Subject Colors, Art, Art--Study and teaching, Color--Study and teaching
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Michael Faraday : Man of Science
- After 1865 – before 1929
A biographical account of the life and accomplishments of Michael Faraday (1791-1867), an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. Digitized content includes the work's…
- Author Jerrold, Walter, 1865-1929
- Publisher Fleming H. Revell
- Subject Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867, Physicists, Lectures and lecturing, Electromagnetism, Electrochemistry
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Postcard from Heinrich J. Goldschmidt to Georg Bredig
- 1918-Jul-13
Heinrich Jacob Goldschmidt (1857-1937), an Austrian chemist who worked in Norway, provides a scientific reference to Georg Bredig (1868-1944) and describes the negative impact of the First World War on his university.
