Bulletin - United States National Museum (1964) (14803482803)

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Title: Bulletin - United States National Museum
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: United States National Museum Smithsonian Institution United States. Dept. of the Interior
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, (etc.) for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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es and scientific organizations and tospecialists and others interested in the different subjects. The Proceedings, begun in 1878, are intended for the publication, in separateform, of shorter papers. These are gathered in volumes, octavo in size, with thepublication date of each paper recorded in the table of contents of the volume. In the Bulletin series, the first of which was issued in 1875, appear longer, sep-arate publications consisting of monographs (occasionally in several parts) andvolumes in which are collected works on related subjects. Bulletins are eitheroctavo or quarto in size, depending on the needs of the presentation. Since 1902papers relating to the botanical collections of the Museum have been publishedin the Bulleti)i series under the heading Contributions from the United StatesNational Herbarium. Frank A. TaylorDirector, United States National Museum For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing OfficeWashington, D.C., 20402 - Price $1.50
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Sixteenth-Century Tanyard Woodcut from Hans Sacks, Eygentliche Beschreibung aller Stayuie . . . mitkunstreichen Figuren by Jost Amman. Frankfurt, 1568. IVom the Collectionsof the Library of Congress. TANNING IN THE UNITED STATES TO 1850 ^ Brief Hiftory PETER C. WELSH Curator, Department of Civil History MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION WASHINGTON : 1964 Co7ite7its Page I. A Basic Industry 3 II. The Techniques of Tanning 15 III. Delaware Tanneries 37 IV. A. Cardon and Company, 1815-1826 51 Appendix 75 Bibliography 91 Index 97 vii Ack?i 0 w ledgm ents For much of the material cited in this study I am indebted to three DelawareInstitutions, the Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation, the Longwood Founda-tion, and the Historical Society of Delaware. It is to the first that I attribute myinterest in the subject itself, prompted mostly bv the partial remains of an earlynineteenth-century tannery that once flourished on what are now the groundsof the Haglev Museum. The m