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.

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.

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,…

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…

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 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,…

Lorenzo Respighi (1824-1889) was the director of the University Observatory at the Campidoglio at Rome. Starting in October of 1869 he observed daily the entire limb of the sun recording prominences and other phenomena.…

Man viewing candle light through a prism. Illustration for section 16. Refraction of Monochromatic Light by a Prism.

Prominences represented in their natural colors, as seen through a large telescope when the slit of the spectroscope was open wide and directed on to the red C-line. These prominences are characteristic of the a…

Prominences represented in their natural colors, as seen through a large telescope when the slit of the spectroscope was open wide and directed on to the red C-line. These prominences are characteristic of the an…

Translated from the second enlarged and revised German edition by Jane and Caroline Lassell; edited with notes by William Huggins; with numerous woodcuts and colored plates.

From the Preface: "Its object is, on the one…

This plate illustrates four spectra from solar phenomena.
Spectrum 1 is Solar Spectrum and Spectrum of the Prominences, during a total Eclipse.
Spectrum 2 is Spectrum of the Corona. Observed by Charles Young…

An illustration of a solar eclipse during the last 2 minutes, 25 seconds, therefore just before the reappearance of the sun's rays. The accompanying text states: ""Scarcely had the last ray of sunlight disappeared,"…

Chromolithograph of a table of spectra in full color.

This plate contains two prints from photographs of a solar eclipse viewed in Burlington, Iowa on August 7, 1869.
"The photographic plates, which were exposed for the brief space of from five to sixteen seconds, give…

An illustration of a man using Lockyer's telespectroscope. Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer (1836-1920), designed this instrument in order to observe the spectra of the prominences in full sunlight. Lockyer is best known for…

Here Schellen is illustrating and explaining the phenomenon of sunspots. The accompanying text states: "In Fig. 106 the drawings marked I represent the varying phases through which a spot surrounded by a penumbra…

Illustration of a man looking through a spectroscope.
From the corresponding text: "Fig. 52, especially the three tubes directed to the prism at different angles, as in that constructed by Kirchhoff and Bunsen. The…