Dye industry -- History

Friedrich Bayer & Company booklet with dye Information, dated 1913.

Dyestuff industry sample dye books and test cards collected and maintained by American dyestuff industry salesman Paul M. Grinder.

Bulletins, circulars, notebooks, color cards, printed materials, and photographic materials regarding dyes and the dye industry in the United States. The materials in this collection were collected and maintained by the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists.

The Ronne material from the New Bedford School is early-modern and forms a continuous whole, the remainder of the material is a grab-bag of commercial literature, mainly sample cards, from a variety of sources.

This is a small but important collection concerning events critical to the eventual demise of the domestic dye industry. As chair of the ICRC of SOCMA during the Kennedy Round of GATT negations in Geneva, May presented forceful argument against tariff reductions in an attempt to establish an american selling price for dyes and dyestuffs.

This material relates to a traveling exhibit mounted by CHF (now Science History Institute) on the development of the dyestuffs industry. It is composed of material found loose in the collections. A number of slides found in the collection were separated for re-filing in the Science History Institute Image Archives.

The Wilhelm Lewicki Collection consists of publications, articles, and correspondence about the Justus von Liegig Museum, which were collected by Wilhelm Lewicki. It is arranged in its original order.