Request for government subsidy : manuscript, 1789
- Description
- Request, signed Hoffman, Paris, 27 February 1789; to an unnamed government official, for a subsidy to develop cultivation of the madder plant in France for use in textile dye. A note at the top in another hand suggests that Hoffman at least obtained an audience in response.
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- Manuscripts, French
- Manuscripts, European
- Date
- 1789
- Language
- French
- Subject
- Technology -- Early works to 1800
- Technology
- Dyes and dyeing -- Early works to 1800
- Madder -- Early works to 1800
- Madder
- Dyes and dyeing
- History
- Geographic Subject
- France -- History -- 1789-1793
- France
- Collection
- Industrial History Letters and Documents
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- Extent
- 1 item (1 bifolium)
- Notes
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- In French.
- Related works
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3nw5r
- Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs180_item3.html
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 180
- Provenance
- Formerly owned by Hans Peter Kraus, as part of ms. 836.
- Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), as part of Ms. 11.
- Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
- Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
- Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
- Kraus, Hans Peter, 1907-1988, former owner.
- Stanitz, John D., former owner.
- Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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