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Robert Evstafieff Rose, Ph.D. (1879-1946) was a renowned textile dye chemist. Beginning in 1917, he was employed as an organic chemist at E.I. du Pont & Nemours Company, Inc., where he was the director of the Dyestuff Application Laboratory at Deepwater Point, New Jersey. He held numerous patents and was an expert on dyes for textiles. Dr. Rose was also well-known as a naturalist and photographer. He and his wife traveled extensively and photographed wildlife and flowers in many places, including Greece, Albania, Yugoslavia, Alaska, and New Jersey, where these Dufaycolor glass-plate positive slides were taken in about 1938.