Blues on Cheviot, The Bayer Company, Inc.: Museum Object and Cultural History
Blues on Cheviot, The Bayer Company, Inc.: Date made: 1900-1914. maker: Bayer Company, Inc.. manufacturer: Bayer.
The object in the museum catalogue
Friedrich Bayer (1825–1880), a dye salesman, and Johann Friedrich Weskott (1821–1876), a master dyer, established "Friedr. Bayer et comp." in 1863, in what is now the German city of Wuppertal. Their initial objective was manufacturing and selling of synthetic dyestuffs. Aspirins came later.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date made: 1900-1914
- maker: Bayer Company, Inc.
- manufacturer: Bayer
- Object Name: sample book, dyestuffs
- Object Name: sample book, dyestuffs
- Object Name: sample book
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: wool fabric (overall material)
- Physical Description: cardboard, fabric covered (overall material)
- manufacturer: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
- ID Number: 2017.0234.03
- catalog number: 2017.0234.03
- accession number: 2017.0234
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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