Dyes and Dyeing -- History

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

The letter concerns a sample of indigo from Piedmont sent to the Count de Chanteloup who is Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal.

Research files, printed materials, manuals, sample cards and sample books, notebooks, and signed items of Herbert T. Pratt, an American chemical engineer, chemistry historian, and collector of rare chemistry books, chemistry memorabilia, and textiles memorabilia.

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.

The cover of the notebook is labeled Conditions and Prices, but the entries mostly deal with the manufacturing processes and even a few sample swatches. The correspondence is similar in content to the notebook, in that it deals with processes and price quotes.

This material consists of student materials used by Lynch while enrolled at the Philadelphia Institute of Textiles and materials collected by Lynch while employed as a working chemist at Du Pont.