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- Title
Founding the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists: Louis Atwell Olney and the Professionalization of Dyeing.
- Authors
Clark, Mark H.
- Abstract
In 1921, a group of chemists and dyers met at the invitation of Louis Atwell Olney and founded the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists (AATCC). In common with the members of the many other American professional associations that were founded in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the AATCC's members had a simple goal in mind-to increase the prestige of their line of work. In all of their activities, the AATCC founders clearly saw existing scientific societies as their model for behavior. By emulating these societies, the AATCC members sought to bring the growing prestige of science to their aid. This behavior was similar to many other professional societies founded at this time, which also associated their work with science and scientific principles as much as possible. The early history of the AATCC was, in short, closely linked to the growing prestige of science in early twentieth- century America.
- Subjects
UNITED States; AMERICAN Association of Textile Chemists &; Colorists; OLNEY, Louis Atwell; TEXTILE dyeing; TEXTILE chemicals; COLOR in the textile industries; DYERS; TEXTILES; TEXTILE industry
- Publication
Textile Chemist & Colorist, 1995, Vol 27, Issue 8, p14
- ISSN
0040-490X
- Publication type
Article