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Box 1

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Irwin Laverne Powers Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6701
Abstract

Chemistry notebooks with cloth samples, from Powers' work at Silver Spring Bleaching & Dyeing Company, Providence, Rhode Island. Also notes concerning linen bleaching & dyes and dyestuffs. Also essay on history of dyes and dyestuffs written by Powers' daughter, Dorothy Powers, while she was a student at Thayer Academy, Braintree, Massachusetts. She mentions her father's role in synthetic dye manufacture.

Dates: 1902-1903