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Joshua Jessop Dye Recipe Books 1826-1827, MS. 2494
Maryland Historical Society
Library of Maryland History
Joshua Jessop Dye Recipe Books, 1826-1827
Maryland Historical
Society
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Joshua Jessop Dye Recipe Books, 1826-1827 Contact Information:
Maryland Historical Society
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Baltimore MD 21201-4674
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Descriptive Summary
Joshua Jessop Dye Recipe Books, 1826-1827
MS 2494
Maryland Historical Society
Baltimore MD 21201-4674
Provenance
Gift, 1980. Passed to donor through the estate of Charles Walter Jessop (1863-1948) of Baltimore County, Maryland, son of Charles M. Jessop and grandson of Joshua Jessop.
Literary
Rights
The Maryland Historical Society controls the literary rights to the two volumes in this collection. Permission to reproduce or publish all or any part of the text should be obtained in writing from the Curator of Manuscripts.
Restriction
The original manuscript volumes are extremely fragile. For this reason researchers are asked to use a photographic reproduction of the text unless absolutely necessary.
Volume List
VOLUME I 1826-1827
entry [No. 1] Drab
[3]
No. 2 Drab
No. 3 Drab
No. 4 Drab
[No. 5] Drab
[4]
No. 6 Drab
No. 7 Drab
No. 8 Drab
No. 9 Wool Drab
[5]
No. 10 Dark Drab
No. 11 led Drab
No. 12 Light Drab
No. 13 Dark Drab
[6]
No. 14 Comon Drab
No. 15 Drab
No. 16 Drab
No. 17 Drab
[7]
No. 18 Drab
No. 19 Drab
No. 20 Drab
No. 21 Drab
[8]
No. 22 Drab
No. 23 Drab
No. 24 Drab
No. 25 Drab
[9]
No. 26 --
No. 27 Drab
No. 28 Drab
No. 56 Drab
[10]
No. 28 Drab
No. 59 Drab
No. 66 Drab
No. 29 Brown
[11]
No. 30 Brown
No. 31 Walnut Brown
No. 32 Snuff Brown
[12]
No. 33 A good London Brown
No. 34 A Snuff Brown
No. 35 Washington Brown
[13]
No. 36 A snuff Broon
No. 37 A redish Brown
No. 38 A Claret or London Brown
No. 39 A Snuff Brown
[14]
No. 40 Snuff Brown
No. 41 a light yellowish snuff
No. 70 Camwood Brown
[15]
No. 76 Snuff Brown
No. 77 Brown or Dark Olive
No. 79 Brown
[16]
No. 80 Brown
No. 81 Brown
No. 48 Green Gauslin
[17]
-- Brown
-- Carbo. [pencil notation: “Charm/ing Coler”]
-- Brown
-- Brown
-- Claret
[18]
No. 42 Black
[21]
No. 43 --
No. 44 Black on cloth
[No. 45] Black
[22]
No. 46 Black
No. 57 Black
No. 57 Black
[23]
No. 58 Black
No. 73 Blue Black [notation: “Mach 8th 1827”]
No. 83 Black
No. 84 Black
[24]
-- Blue Black for Mixturs
-- Black for Mixtures
-- Black
-- Black
[25]
-- Blue/black on wool for Mixtures
No. 85 To Make the Solution of [UNK] for Scarlets Abridged. taken from Bancroft
[28-29]
No. 47 Bottle Green
[30]
No. 48 Bottle Green
-- Scarlet abridged from Row.
[30-31]
-- Madder Reed
[31]
No. 68 Madder Reed
[32]
No. 69 Nicoragua Reed
[33]
No. 86 Hatchwood Red
No. 49 Purple
[34]
No. 50 Lo[UNK]gw[ood] Blue
[35]
No. 51 Logwood Blue
No. 72 Navy Blue
No. 78 Logwood Blue
[36]
-- Navy Blue
-- Navy Blue
No. 65 Yelow
[37]
-- Saddle Cloth yellow
-- Yellow
-- Orang
[38]
-- Green
No. 5[2] Olive
[41]
No. 53 Olive
No. 54 Olive
No. 55 Olive
[42]
No. 60 Olive Green
No. 61 Olive Brown
No. 62 Olive Green
-- [Olive]
[43]
No. 75 Green Olive
-- Green Olive
-- Olive
[44]
No. 63 Buff or Cream Color
[46]
No. 67 Buff colour
No. 64 Faun Colour
[47]
-- [two pages of blue swatches]
[50-51]
VOLUME II n.d.
Drab
[3]
Drab
Drab
Drab
Drab
[4]
Drab
Drab
Drab
Drab
Drab
[5]
Drab
Drab
Table Cloth
[11]
Green
A green or carpet yarn
An Emerald Green
Explanation of terms used in Bancrofts Philosophy/on colours
[16-24]
Woad Dye
[16]
Receipt for Carding Wool
[15]
[swatches]
[14]
