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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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3 items
Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash
- After 1930 – before 1970
Glass bottle of "Lydia E. Pinkham" brand sanative wash.
Lydia E. Pinkham, née Estes, (1819-1883) was an American proprietor who commodified her homemade herbal-alcoholic supplements, claiming they could cure any…
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4 items
Lydia E. Pinkham Pills for Constipation
- After 1930 – before 1970
Bottle of "Lydia E. Pinkham" brand pills for constipation.
Lydia E. Pinkham, née Estes, (1819-1883) was an American proprietor who commodified her homemade herbal-alcoholic supplements, claiming they could cure any…
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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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2 items
Fritz Haber attending a preparatory meeting at the Universidad Internacional de Verano de Santander
- 1933-Aug
Photograph taken at the “first scientific meeting” of the Santander Summer School. This 11-day meeting, dedicated to chemistry, was held August 9th through 20th, 1933 by International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry…
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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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The "Polar" Milk Cooler
- 1930s
A terracotta vessel designed to go over a milk bottle. The terracotta is to be soaked with water, and so will keep its interior space cool through evaporation.
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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 Walther Nernst to Georg Bredig, May 1933
- 1933-May-17
Walther Nernst (1864-1941), a German chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1920, and one of the founding fathers of physical chemistry, informs his friend and colleague, Georg Bredig (1868-1944) that he…
- Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Author Nernst, Walther, 1864-1941
- Subject Nernst, Walther, 1864-1941, Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Nobel Prize winners
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Note from Georg Bredig to Max Bredig, November 1939
- 1930s
Georg Bredig (1868-1944) writes a note to his son, Max Bredig (1902-1977), who resides in New York City. He updates Max on his life in exile in the Netherlands as he waits to depart for the U.S.A, including his…
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Correspondence between Georg Bredig to Max Bredig, circa 1935
- Decade starting 1935
Correspondence between Georg Bredig (1868-1944) and his son, Max Bredig (1902-1977), regarding income tax laws in Germany. Georg has copied an excerpt from the tax information sheet of the university association and…
- Author Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Addressee Bredig, Max Albert, 1902-1977
- Subject Third Reich, Taxation, Antisemitism, Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Bredig, Max Albert, 1902-1977
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Max Bredig and motorcycle
- After 1930 – before 1937
A black and white photograph of Max Bredig (1902-1977) in a wooded area, leaning on his motorcycle with a sidecar. Max sold his motorcycle after he immigrated to the United States in 1937.
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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 Max Planck to Georg Bredig, May 1933
- 1933-May-22
Max Planck (1858-1947), a German theoretical physicist who won the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering energy quanta, thanks Georg Bredig (1868-1944) and the German Bunsen Society for wishing him well on his…
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Bug-A-Boo With and Without D.D.T. Kills All 9 Major Pests
- After 1931 – before 1963
Color-print advertisement for Socony-Vacuum Bug-a-boo insecticide. An illustration of three cartoon mosquitos fleeing from a pesticide sprayer fills the top portion of the page. Two Bug-a-boo bottles are illustrated on…
- Creator Of Work Socony-Vacuum Oil Company
- Subject DDT (Insecticide), Insecticides, Pests--Control, Socony-Vacuum Oil Company
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28 items
Chemical Supplies Apparatus Chemicals Books
- After 1930 – before 1950
A catalog of chemical supplies and laboratory apparatus manufactured by the Reading Scientific Company. Contains a number of print illustrations depicting the company's products. The advertised supplies range from…
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Prof. Einstein wehrt sich
- "Professor Einstein defends himself"
- 1933-Jan-03
In this propagandistic opinion piece from a German newspaper based in Karlsruhe, the writer states that an American women's organization was right to reject Albert Einstein's visit to the United States and subtly…
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Skein Dyed Yarn
- 1928 – 1968
Four skeins of yarn, connected in bundles of two. Each has been skein dyed with General Aniline & Film Corporation dye, 1% Acid Alizarine Brown RRL-CF and 1% Supralan Grey BRLS-CF. There is a paper label attached to…
