Printer's sample book
Small leather notebook with handwritten formulas for dyestuffs to be used for printed textiles. Contains 145 samples of printed fabric in a variety of patterns.
Credit: Gift of Frederick J. Whitehead from the collection compiled by his father Cornelius Whitehead at the Pacific Print Works of Lawrence, Massachusetts
1878-79
Medium: leather, paper, cotton
1945-55-33
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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