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English: Title: Color expert for Uncle Sam. Washington, D.C., June 20. When it was discovered that color plays an important [role] in marketing of cotton, Miss Dorothy Nickerson, Color Technologist of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, developed a method for measuring the color of raw cotton mechanically. The equipment comprises a comparator, a motor on which to spin standard color discs, the color discs, and standard artificial daylight. When looking through the comparator, the operator sees a circular field, the upper half made up of the color of the cotton and the lower half made up of the disc colors, 6/20/38 Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller
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  • Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection.
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harris & ewing collection · prints and photographs division
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united states · district of columbia · washington (d.c.) · glass negatives
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district of columbia
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District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
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Glass negatives

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