4 collections related to Dyes and dyeing -- Chemistry

This collection contains technical bulletins from the Calco Chemcial Division of the American Cyanamid Company and Courtaulds Limited, which manufactured Courtelle. The dates of the bulletins range from 1937 to 1988. New Jersey’s Calco Chemical Company was founded in 1915 at a site close to the town of Bound Brook, New Jersey, almost adjacent to the Raritan River, to manufacture coal-tar intermediates required to make synthetic dyestuffs. After 1918, Calco also successfully embarked on the manufacture of synthetic dyestuffs by processes that were far more complex than hitherto used in American chemical industry. After 1945, American Cyanamid’s Calco Chemical Division specialized in vat dyestuffs, fluorescent whitening agents, polyurethane and acrylic polymers, and the invention of herbicides. In 1993, Cyanamid finished its transformation from a chemical to a drug and agricultural products company. Courtelle was an acrylic fabric resembling wool that was developed and manufactured by Courtaulds Ltd., a United Kingdom-based manufacturer of fabric, clothing, artificial fibers, and chemicals. Less

This collection contains a notebook used by the college student G. M. Sloan for a lab for a course in textile dyes. The item dates from approximately 1915. G. M. (Graham Munroe) Sloan was a textile student at North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (later North Carolina State University), from approximately 1915 to approximately 1919. He grew up in Swannanoa, North Carolina, and served in the military during World War I. Later, he may have worked at Beacon Manufacturing. Less