Re: Hubner Colour Chart - History of Colour
Re: Hubner Colour Chart - History of Colour
- Subject: Re: Hubner Colour Chart - History of Colour
- From: Ernst Dinkla <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:03:52 +0100
email@hidden wrote:
I know this is off the topic of colorsync but I am hoping that some of the expert contibutors may be able to help
me. A colleague of mine has been trying to find out about the Hubner Colour Chart. He has a copy of the original
printed in 1936 in mint condition. He has written to ICC Secretary Tony Johnson (London College of Printing) who
was able to tell him it was the first colour 'atlas' for graphic arts. It was puiblished by Huebner Laboratories, 202
East 44 Street, New York USA.
We would like to find out:
1. If Hubner laboritories still exists in any way shape or form. In other words, has their intellectual property been
taken up by succeeding organisations or corporations?
2. Is there any information 'out there' regarding its contribution to the development of graphic arts?
3. Would the book have any $ value? If so, what would it be worth?
4. Are there insitutions out there that keep these type of resources for historical and educational research?
We are/were teachers at a publicly funded Graphic Arts Training facility and are thinking of putting it on display
ourselves as part of an exhibition on our (continuing) struggle to describe and define the facinating world of
colour. However, we need some background so that we know just what we are dealing with.
Mark Stegman
Teacher - Prepress
Graphic Arts Centre
Sydney Institute of TAFE NSW
Sydney, Australia.
You will find some references to William C. Huebner ..........
Huebner-Bleistein Patents Co. Buffalo ......... in the pages 50
to 57 of " A half century of Color " by William Walton Sipley,
the Macmillan Company, NY, 1951.
Samples of early (1910) full color offset prints + progressive
proofs made by Huebner may be found in the American Museum of
Photography, at least they got them between 1910 and 1951 the
book says. The separations were made directly from the object.
You could check the value of early Munsell or Ostwald books in
mint condition. Same period. A Google could tell you.
Ernst
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