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A. Lee Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: 6492

Scope and Contents

A. Lee Company Records includes a letter, July 12, 1889, from Bulmer, Crouchley & Co., indigo merchants, drysalters and aniline dye manufacturers in Leeds [England], enclosing a process for blue and red soluble indigo or indigotine. Also contains a contract with Erich Korndorfer, a chemist and dyer from Chemnitz, Germany and Ernst Junginger, a merchant from Wiesbaden, giving the company rights to manufacture and sell their carbid-oils in the U.S.; provisional and complete specifications, 1905, of Korndorfer's process for oiling cotton and other vegetable fibers to soften and improve the appearance of dyed material and a process for manufacture of emulsifying mineral oils and mineral oil soaps; and a transfer of patents, 1906, of these processes from Korndorfer to A. Lee Company

Dates

  • 1889-1906

Conditions Governing Access

Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.

Conditions Governing Use

This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.

Biographical / Historical

The company was located in Boston and Lawrence, Mass.

Extent

0 cubic feet

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Collection of correspondence, dye chemistry information and contract.

Custodial History

American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of Mel Weiner.

Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository

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