Dyes and dyeing -- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.

Scope and Contents

This item is a 4.5 x 7 inch wallet style black morocco pocket memorandum book. Most of the pages in the book remain blank, but there are ten pages containing a record of Ronne's expenses from November 1879 through March 1880. After a break of several pages there follows a thirty-two page hand written formulary containing pharmaceutical recipes and household tips, including some on dyes and dyeing.

Scope and content This notebook which has been removed from its original binder consists of three sections, Lecture notes, Laboratory experiment, and textile fiber sample pages. The lecture notes are handwritten in black and red ink, with inserted mimeographed and typewritten pages, and a black and white photograph. The notes also include hand drawn ink illustrations. The laboratory notes consist of experiments written black ink with results written in red ink. The sample pages include 159 samples of textile...