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3M 51S
Hercules Powder Company tree stump handling in Brunswick, Georgia
- 1920 – 1940
Silent footage of Hercules Powder Company processing tree stumps at their Brunswick, Georgia plant for use in their cellulose products. Footage shows stumps being removed from railroad cars by crane and dropped into…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Powder Company
- Subject Cellulose industry, Hercules Powder Company, Chemical industry, Naval stores industry, Cranes, derricks, etc., Machinery
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18M 23S
Hercules Powder Company Woods Camp pine stump gathering
- 1920 – 1940
Silent footage of tree stump removal being done by Hercules Powder Company at an unknown location, likely in the southeastern United States. These stumps were removed using machinery and then transferred to a Hercules…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Powder Company
- Subject Hercules Powder Company, Cellulose industry, Tree stump removal, Machinery
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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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20 items
Dyes for Paper
- 1920s
Sample book containing paper samples colored with dyestuffs manufactured by the National Aniline & Chemical Company, Inc. The colors are categorized into three groups: acid colors, basic colors, and direct colors.…
- Creator Of Work National Aniline and Chemical Company
- Publisher National Aniline and Chemical Company
- Subject Dyes and dyeing, Dyes and dyeing--Paper, National Aniline and Chemical Company, Coal-tar colors
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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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RIT Cake, Flaked, and Powdered
- 1920-May
Print advertisement for RIT brand textile dye from Good Housekeeping magazine, May 1920. The advertisement features several color illustrations of women wearing garments colored with RIT dyes, as well as sketches of…
- Creator Of Work Sunbeam Chemical Company
- Publisher Hearst Corporation
- Subject Dyes and dyeing, Dye industry, Dyes and dyeing--Textile fibers
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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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2 items
Letter from Max Bredig to Rudolf Brill
- Decade starting 1925
Max Bredig (1902-1977) informs Rudolf Brill (1899-1989) that he would like to withdraw his application for employment at I.G. Farbenindustrie because he has applied for a scholarship to study in the U.S.A.
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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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3 items
Letter from Rudolf Wegscheider to Georg Bredig, September 1920
- 1920-Sep-05
Rudolf Wegscheider (1859-1935), an Austrian chemist, thanks Georg Bredig (1868-1944) for wishing him well on his sixtieth birthday. Wegscheider additionally laments turning older and the economic consequences of the…
- Author Wegscheider, Rudolf, 1859-1935
- Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Subject Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, World War (1914-1918), Wegscheider, Rudolf
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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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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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3 items
Letter from Max Planck to Georg Bredig, March 1920
- 1920-Mar-03
Max Planck (1858-1947), a German theoretical physicist who won the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering energy quanta, informs Georg Bredig (1868-1944) of a new lending service for foreign language scientific…
- Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Author Planck, Max, 1858-1947
- Subject Planck, Max, 1858-1947, Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Science publishing
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2 items
Postcard from Heike Kamerlingh Onnes to Georg Bredig, June 1920
- 1920-Jun-10
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853-1926), a Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate, congratulates Georg Bredig (1868-1944) on becoming a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences.
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99 items
Blasting Accessories
- Blasting Caps, Safety Fuse, Cap Crimpers, Electric Blasting Caps
- Circa 1920
Booklet describing the Explosives Service of the Du Pont Company. The work describes products manufactured by the Du Pont Company related to blasting accessories, in particular, blasting caps, safety fuses, cap…
- Author E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
- Publisher E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
- Subject Blasting, Explosives, Blasting--Equipment and supplies
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12 items
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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32 items
National Dyes for Union Materials
- After 1917 – before 1920
Sample book containing a description of dye application methods, a table for conversion of dyestuff percentages to avoirdupois, and 238 mounted fabric swatches dyed with National Aniline & Chemical Company manufactured…
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Letter to the Metal Bank and Metallurgical Society from Max Bredig
- 1920s
Upon finishing his doctoral degree, Max Bredig (1902-1977) applies for a position as a physical chemist at the Norddeutsche Affinerie (North German Refinery) in Hamburg.
- Author Bredig, Max Albert, 1902-1977
- Addressee Metallbank und Metallurgische Gesellschaft
- Subject Bredig, Max Albert, 1902-1977, Metallurgy, Chemistry
