Pamphlet written by Dorothy Lawless (1906-1981) about using Putnam Fadeless Dyes to make colorful floral hooked rugs. Lawless provides instructions for dying textiles and gives suggestions for achieving the color of…

Promotional video produced by the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists to encourage new membership. Features then-president of the AATCC, William R. Martin, Jr. The AATCC is a professional organization…

One in a series of four educational chemistry films made by Harvard professor Louis Fieser, demonstrating basic chemistry concepts and laboratory procedures. Fieser was an organic chemist known for his work with…

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.

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…

In this interview Sidney Edelstein begins with his family life in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and includes his early education and experiences at the Baylor School in Chattanooga. He describes his undergraduate career at…

A spectrocolorimeter is a form of spectrophotometer that can calculate tristimulus values, or the the light intensity of primary color values in a sample.

A black, aluminum dye box with a pry-off lid decorated by green text and the Badische Anilin- & Soda-Fabrik insignia.

Black and white photograph showing the interior of a dye laboratory of the General Dyestuff Corporation, likely in Providence, Rhode Island.

Red and grey fabric dye box with a paper dye packet containing Rit brand, all-purpose grey powdered fabric dye. All-Purpose Rit dye was introduced in 1941. This development gave the dye an affinity for synthetic…

Black cardboard box with a bright yellow design containing neon fabric dye. Dye instructions are printed in white on the back of the box. The powdered dye is contained in a paper packet. Dye instructions are also…

Color print advertisement for the General Aniline & Film Corporation and its standardization of colored dye batches for clothes and textiles. An illustration depicts a man analyzing a potentiometer above a dye vat for a…

Color advertisement for the General Aniline & Film Corporation describing their fadeometer testing program. A fadeometer is an accelerated aging testing device that measures the colorfastness of a material - in this…

An advertisement included in a 1968 issue of Seventeen Magazine shows three women in brightly colored, Maidenform brand neon undergarments.

Eighteen dyed and undyed fabric samples made of Dacron and Antron fibers mounted in a tri-folded cardboard booklet.

Twenty-four dyed Dacron samples attached to a bi-fold cardstock brochure.

Two booklets containing nylon samples dyed in various shades. Samples represent the hosiery variety available for purchase at the Harrison Hosiery Company located in Philadelphia. The booklets contain samples for…

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…

Digitized content includes a page from the November 1906 issue of the Journal of the Society of Dyers and Colourists and a foldout of an interleaved reflectance spectroscopy chart. The journal article excerpt includes…

Print advertisement for Parlon (Hercules chlorinated rubber) and Pentalyn, a resin product, both manufactured and sold by Hercules Powder Company for use in traffic paints. The advertisement features an illustration of…

A booklet produced by the General Dyestuff Corporation, a sales division of the General Aniline & Film Corporation. Includes 16 mounted dyed nylon fabric samples on three cardstock pages, dyeing method instructions, and…

Sample book for dyeing solutions on wood from the Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft, a German chemical and pharmaceutical conglomerate. Contains dyeing instructions and sixty-four mounted wood…

Black and white print advertisement for Dow Latex Paints, a fast-drying and durable interior wall paint manufactured by the Dow Chemical Company. Depicts a man painting a wall and a woman cleaning paint from a rolling…

Black and white print advertisement for Dow Latex Paints, a fast-drying and durable interior wall paint manufactured by the Dow Chemical Company. Depicts a man, woman, and young boy all contributing to painting a wall.…

Black and white print advertisement for Dow Latex Paints, a fast-drying and durable interior wall paint manufactured by the Dow Chemical Company. Includes five images demonstrating the qualities of Dow Latex paints. In…