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Illustration of woman in a long green dress and a white bonnet. She is holding a fan in her hand that matches her dress.

Sunset Dye

DateApproximately 1890
Names
FormatEphemera
Subject
    GeographyCity, town, townshipToronto
    GeographyNeighbourhoodSt. Lawrence
    GeographyEast-west streetKing Street East
    GeographyProvince stateOntario
    GeographyCountryCanada
    Medium
    Advertising cards
    Medium
    Trade cards
    DimensionsFolded: 10.4 cm x 5.9 cm (4 1/8 in. x 2 5/16 in.)
    Language
      CollectionBaldwin Collection of Canadiana
      Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
      Object NumberCA-1890-DILWORTH-VS
      Colorized photograph of a woman standing in front of a shop counter full of dyed ostrich feathe…
      Parker's Dye Works Limited, Cleaners and Dyes, Toronto
      Valentine & Sons
      Approximately 1915
      Summer fun in the sunset. Children enjoy the sunset on the beach at Port Dalhousie, near St. Catharines, on a rare, warm summer's night. Following a t(...)
      Summer fun in the sunset. Children enjoy the sunset on the beach at Port Dalhousie, near St. Catharines, on a rare, warm summer's night. Following a t(...)
      Bock, Tony
      8/17/1992
      Formerly Dunspaugh & Watson. Receipt of customer John Lauder Esq. Part of Morris Norman donatio…
      Bought of J.L. Margach & Co., drugs, medicines, chemicals, paints, oils, putty, colours, patent dryers, brushes of all kinds, varnishes, naval stores, dye-stuffs, glassware, artist materials, surgical instruments, patent medicines, perfumery, fancy goods, &c. &c.
      1870
      Bought of Dunspaugh & Watson, importers and wholesale and retail dealers in drugs, medicines, chemicals; paints and colours, dry and in oil; sperm, lard, elephant, machinery, and other oils; spirits turpentine; paint brushes; varnishes; dye-stuffs; snuff; manufacturers of patent medicines, essences &c.
      Bought of Dunspaugh & Watson, importers and wholesale and retail dealers in drugs, medicines, chemicals; paints and colours, dry and in oil; sperm, lard, elephant, machinery, and other oils; spirits turpentine; paint brushes; varnishes; dye-stuffs; snuff; manufacturers of patent medicines, essences &c.
      1867
      Bought of Dunspaugh & Watson, importers and wholesale and retail dealers in drugs, medicines, chemicals; paints and colours, dry and in oil; sperm, lard, elephant, machinery, and other oils; spirits turpentine; paint brushes; varnishes; dye-stuffs; snuff; manufacturers of patent medicines, essences &c.
      Bought of Dunspaugh & Watson, importers and wholesale and retail dealers in drugs, medicines, chemicals; paints and colours, dry and in oil; sperm, lard, elephant, machinery, and other oils; spirits turpentine; paint brushes; varnishes; dye-stuffs; snuff; manufacturers of patent medicines, essences &c.
      1867
      Receipt of customer John Lauder Esq. Part of Morris Norman donation of business papers, 2002.
      Bought of Dunspaugh & Watson drugs, medicines, chemicals, paints, oils, putty, colours, patent dryers, brushes of all kinds, varnishes, naval stores, dye-stuffs, glassware, artist materials, surgical instruments, patent medicines, perfumery, fancy goods, &c. &c.
      1867
      A bunny tale of Diamond Dyes
      A bunny tale of Diamond Dyes
      American Lithographic Co.
      1909 circa
      Buckingham's dye for the whiskers
      Buckingham's dye for the whiskers
      R.P. Hall & Company (Nashua, N.H.)
      1900 circa
      Diamond Dye nursery rhymes
      Diamond Dye nursery rhymes
      Diamond Dyes
      1900 circa
      Saved by Buckingham's Dye for the whiskers
      Saved by Buckingham's Dye for the whiskers
      R.P. Hall & Company (Nashua, N.H.)
      1900 circa
      Bismarck Avenue entrance of Parker's Dye Works. 791 Yonge Street, Toronto.
      Bismarck Avenue entrance of Parker's Dye Works. 791 Yonge Street, Toronto.
      Unknown
      Approximately 1910
      John Gerochristodoulu picks up a dead fish, one of hundreds killed last summer when a blocked sewer allowed liquid from a Scarborough dye firm to spill into Massey Creek, a Don tributary
      John Gerochristodoulu picks up a dead fish, one of hundreds killed last summer when a blocked sewer allowed liquid from a Scarborough dye firm to spill into Massey Creek, a Don tributary
      Stawicki, Andrew
      7/21/1988