Ernest Ernie Repetti organized and directed the semi-professional Hamilton Packers football team, members of Long Island NY''s Suffolk County Football League. Previously, Repetti was a metropolitan all-scholastic football star at Brooklyn's Alexander Hamilton High School, going on to study at the City College of New York and serving four years in United States Army. A manager in the lumber industry, he also served as President of the Suffolk County Baseball, a position he held for over 25 years, starting in 1947.
1 box of powdered synthetic (aniline) textile dyes. 46 Glass jars with glass stoppers; complete range of shades. National Aniline & Chemical Co., Buffalo, NY
probably 1920s-30s. Jar dimensions 5” H x 1 7/8” W. Manufactured by the National Aniline & Chemical Company. Taken as a non-accession to facilitate use in exhibitions and for destructive testing.. National Aniline and Chemicals was one of the earliest American dyestuff companies to take advantage of the dye shortage during the first World War to build the American dye industry, and the range of colors in this collection of 46 small jars is an excellent cross section.
