Gallery Description
Hinks stands in NC State’s future dye library storage room during construction. Amanda Holbrook
Staff and students work together to haul the dye library out of a moving truck. Hinks says that the collection will be a valuable teaching tool and that students have already volunteered to help with digitization. Amanda Holbrook
Opening the carefully packed dyes, Hinks is accompanied by (from left) staff member Dzung Nguyen, graduate students Guan Wang and Min Li, and postdoctoral associate Maqbool Hussain. Amanda Holbrook
Hinks and analytical chemist Nelson Vinueza inspect samples in the completed storage room. Vinueza will lead the on-the-ground effort of digitizing the collection.Marc Hall/NC State
The collection contains drawers upon drawers of glass vials—about 600 vials per drawer. Simone Keith/NC State
Each vial is labeled by hand—the oldest in the collection date to the 1940s.Marc Hall/NC State
Some of the dyes in the collection are fluorescent. Marc Hall/NC State
Each vial has a corresponding envelope with swatches of dyed fabrics and cards with light-stability data. Marc Hall/NC State
The collection also includes intelligence reports on the German dye industry from the post-World War II era. Simone Keith/NC State
