Sally Fox Innovative Lives Presentation
name: label: Creator
content: Person, Abigail
label: Creator
content: Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
label: Creator
content: Fox, Sally
label: Names
content: Fox Fibre.
label: Names
content: Natural Cotton Colours, Inc.
topic: label: Topic
content: Inventors -- 1980-2000
label: Topic
content: Inventors -- 20th century
label: Topic
content: Spinning -- 1980-2000
label: Topic
content: Cotton growing -- 1980-2000
label: Topic
content: Cotton -- 1980-2000
label: Topic
content: Inventions -- 1980-2000
label: Topic
content: Slides
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Created by the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation on November 14, 1997.
creator: label: Creator
content: Person, Abigail
label: Creator
content: Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
label: Creator
content: Fox, Sally
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content: Sally Fox Innovative Lives Presentation
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Sally Fox began growing brown cotton in 1982 and experimented with crossbreeding it. By 1985, some of Fox's plants growing from cross-pollinated seeds produced green cotton as well as brown. These naturally colored cottons were brought to the marketplace in 1989, when Fox established her company, Natural Cotton Colours, Inc., in Arizona. FoxFibre is the registered trademark of her naturally colored cotton. Fox developed several different types and colors of cotton--pink, yellow, lavender, brown, green, and red.  Crossbreeding two types, reddish-brown Coyote and traditional white Pima produces the bronze brown Buffalo FoxFibre. The six varieties of FoxFibre include three browns: Coyote (reddish), Buffalo (mocha), and New Brown; and three greens: Green FoxFibre, Palo Verde (sage), and New Green. FoxFibre is naturally colored, so there is need to bleach or dye the fabric. The Coyote and Buffalo FoxFibre are naturally flame resistant.  FoxFibre is environmentally friendly because it is grown organically, without the use of chemical pesticides.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.25 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1997
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The collection was transferred from the Lemelson Center to the Archives Center on May 1, 1998.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0646
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Videotapes
label: Type
content: Oral history
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is divided into four series.

Series 1: Original Videos, 1997

Series 2: Master Videos, 1997

Series 3: Reference Videos, 1997

Series 4: Photographs, 1997
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Processed by Alison Oswald, archivist, July 1998; revised January 2001.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Original videos digitized in 2014. See repository for details.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Videotapes -- 1990-2000
label: Genre/Form
content: Oral history -- 1980-2000
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews -- 1980-2000
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This collection contains 5 1/2 hours of footage documenting Sally Fox, an inventor of a commercially spinnable naturally colored cotton.  This video was created on November 14, 1997.