Barlow's Indigo Blue dye
- 1860s
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.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. Barlow's brand indigo dye was manufactured in Philadelphia by the Wiltberger family, who ran Wiltberger's drug store from 1815 to 1896. Their successors, Pfromm and Kindig, continued to produce Barlow's indigo blue dye into the 20th century.
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Science History Institute. Barlow's Indigo Blue Dye. Photograph, 2023. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/eg0dgw5.
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