Third issue from the twenty-third volume of Dyestuffs, a journal publication from the National Aniline Division of the Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation issued on a monthly to quarterly basis from 1898 to 1964 (suspended briefly from 1916 to 1917).

The journal contains reprints of select articles from periodicals in the dyeing and textile fields. Digitized content from this issue includes a black and white print portrait of William Henry Perkin (1838-1907). Known as the father of the synthetic chemical industry, Perkin created the first synthetic dye, mauveine, in 1856, while attempting to create an artificial version of the drug quinine. Perkin’s mauve became the first commercially available mass-produced dye and paved the way for other notable synthetic dyes, including fuchsin (1858), ceruleine (1871), and synthetic indigo (1880).

Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation (later Allied Corporation, AlliedSignal Inc., and extant today as Honeywell, Inc.), formed in 1920 as an amalgamation of five chemical companies including the National Aniline & Chemical Company (founded 1917), Semet-Solvay Company (founded 1895), and the Solvay Process Company (founded 1881).