Notebook containing dyed yarn samples and corresponding handwritten dye recipes.

Notebook in which Charles F. Chandler (1836-1925) has pasted an assortment of government regulations and other items of interest related to food inspection and public health. Alongside these printed regulations are…

In 1856, while attempting to synthesize quinine, William Henry Perkin (1839-1907) serendipitously produced a synthetic purple dye that came to be known as mauve. The popularity and success of this dye in the textile…

This warped and worn nineteenth-century Italian manuscript appears to be a working manual and color inventory of a wool dyer in mid-nineteenth-century Italy. The handwritten entries are dated between 1856 and 1866,…

The first of two highly legible British dyer's account journals. The journal lists recipes and the costs for materials used in the process of dyeing many kinds of cloth, "gum china blue," "sumac," "peachwood," etc.…

The first of two highly legible British dyer's account journals. The journal lists recipes and the costs for materials used in the process of dyeing many kinds of cloth, "gum china blue," "sumac," "peachwood," etc.…

Letter in French from Giovanni Antonio Giobert (1761-1834), an Italian chemist and mineralogist after whom the mineral giobertite has been named, to Count Chanteloup. Dated August 16, 1812, the letter concerns a sample…