Memorandum and account book belonging to Charles A. Ronne. The majority of the pages are blank. Ten pages contain a record of Ronne's expenses from November 1879 through March 1880. After a break of several pages, there…

Notebook containing dyed yarn samples and corresponding handwritten dye recipes.

Sample book containing a "general survey of [Farwerke vorm. Meister Lucius & Brüning's] various coloring matters... their solubility, the methods of applying them to wool, cotton, and silk, and their employment in…

Treatise containing "practical knowledge" on dyeing for manufacturers, with sections on mordants, chemicals used in dyeing, wool scouring, extracting cotton from wool, and 253 dye recipes for wool, cotton, and shoddy…

The fifth edition of a work on dyeing and printing with aniline dyes on fabric, cotton, and silk. Contains 84 colored fabric samples. Only dye samples have been digitized.

The third edition of a work on dyeing and printing with aniline dyes on fabric, cotton, and silk. Contains 88 colored fabric samples. Only dye samples have been digitized.

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…

Cardboard box which at one time contained two dozen, wooden dye containers sealed with paper labels. Each contained an indigo fabric dye puck.

Indigo is among the oldest dyes to be used for textile dyeing and printing.…

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,…

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…

First edition work on dyeing techniques. This work contains 12 plates illustrating reproductions of dyed fabrics and color palettes. Illustrations in the text depict machinery and other dyeing apparatus.

The author,…

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.…

Frederick Crace Calvert (1819–1873) was a professor of chemistry at the Royal Institution, Manchester. From 1835 to 1846 he lived in France, studying chemistry under the chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786-1889), who…

The third edition of a work, updated from the first to include an updated description of contemporary dyeing machinery, advances in science, and updated nomenclature and chemical formula. According to the author, the…

Part of the Romance of Science Series, this volume provides an expanded version of a lecture series given by the author, Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney (1843-1920) at the Royal Society of Arts. Contents include sixteen…

Joseph Williams Lovibond (1833-1918) was a British brewer who developed the first practical colorimeter. After discovering that coloration was a good index for assessing the quality of his beer, he sought an accurate…

Third edition volume of Spectrum Analysis by Henry Enfield Roscoe (1833-1915) with numerous engravings and colored plates. Roscoe has included a series of six lectures on the subject of spectrum analysis with…

Frontispiece of Biographical notice of Pres't Henry Morton, PH. D. showing a photographic reproduction of a painted portrait of Henry Morton (1836-1902). Morton was the first president of the Stevens Institute of…

A biographical account of Henry Morton (1836-1902), written to accompany the presentation of Morton's painted portrait to the Stevens Institute of Technology trustees. A reproduction of the portrait is shown in the…

Color plate depicts the decomposition structure of solar rays. Light passes through a prism illustrating the color composition of solar rays.

This plate comes from the Chemical Atlas; or, The Chemistry of Familiar…

Color plate illustrates an early method of bleaching cotton and linen goods on lawns. Two women stand amongst a vast landscape holding watering cans over strips of white cloth. Decorative frame is bordered by foliage…

Plate depicts the interior of a factory where the bleaching of pulp is being undertaken for the manufacturing of paper. Two workers stand amongst vats of bleach and machinery.

This plate is from John Howard Appleton's…

Frontispiece illustration contains three figures. Figure six is entitled "Spectrum showing the absorptive power of Sodium vapor," which is a spectrum of sodium. Replicating Sir Isaac Newton's (1642-1727) discovery,…

Chromolithographed frontispiece plate illustrates the solar spectrum in figure one with blood spectra as follows:

2: oxy haemogloben
3: haemoglobin (reduced haemoglobin)
4: methaemoglobin
5: acid haematin
6: alkaline…