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Banquet in honor of Sir William Henry Perkin : Delmonico's, October 6, 1906.

Dinner in honor of Sir William Henry Perkin by his American friends to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his discovery of the dyestuff mauve on Saturday, the sixth of October one thousand, nine hundred and six at Delmonico's.

Mauve : how one man invented a colour that changed the world / Simon Garfield.

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Banquet in honor of Sir William Henry Perkin : Delmonico's, October 6, 1906.

Dinner in honor of Sir William Henry Perkin by his American friends to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his discovery of the dyestuff mauve on Saturday, the sixth of October one thousand, nine hundred and six at Delmonico's.

Mauve : how one man invented a colour that changed the world / Simon Garfield.