The Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Season 1, Episode 2: Deadly Colors

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The Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Season 1, Episode 2: Deadly Colors

In this episode, Haley and Natali talk colors that can kill and explore the popularity and grim fate of the glamorous, literally luminous Radium Girls.

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Show Notes:

Here are links to the sources and resources we used while researching this episode:

Sheele’s Green and Paris Green:

• Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present, by Alison Matthews David: https://amzn.to/2YLXYtx 
• What Sheele’s Green Looked Like: These Dresses Could–And Did–Literally Kill: https://bust.com/style/195600-when-good-dresses-kill.html 
• Arcenic vs. cyanide: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-arsenic-and-cyanide 
• The History of Green Dye Is a History of Death, by Jennifer Wright: https://www.racked.com/2017/3/17/14914840/green-dye-history-death 
• Scheele’s Green Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheele%27s_Green 
• Scheele’s Green, the Color of Fake Foliage and Death: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/05/02/scheeles-green-the-color-of-fake-foliage-and-death/ 
• Paris Green wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_green 
• What Paris Green Looked Like: https://www.thetweedytraveler.com/post/paris-green 
• The Arsenic Waltz cartoon from Punch: https://punch.photoshelter.com/image/I0000z2ZBGfpA.f0 

Cadmium Pigments

• Cadmium Pigments Wikipedia:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadmium_pigments
• Toxicological Profile for Cadmium https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK158834/
• NY Times Article https://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/17/us/paint-use-is-linked-to-artist-s-cancer.html
• Artnet News Article https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ban-on-cadmium-pigments-could-change-art-forever-113493?gclid=Cj0KCQjwzZj2BRDVARIsABs3l9IvY2pgBKTkNOFUdAwFi6CAxF_hNAzJzcgPZla6-B8MHD1RIpz1ZmsaAmU4EALw_wcB

Radium Girls:

• Wired: The Radium Girls: https://www.wired.com/2011/03/the-radium-girls/ 
• Wired: Life in the Dark: https://www.wired.com/2011/03/life-in-the-undark/ 
• Wired: A Dazzle in the Bones: https://www.wired.com/2011/03/a-dazzle-in-the-bones/ (contains legal case info)
• The Forgotten Story of the Radium Girls, Whose Deaths Saved Thousands of Worker’s Lives: https://www.buzzfeed.com/authorkatemoore/the-light-that-does-not-lie (contains legal case info)
• Radium Wikipedia  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium
• Live Science Article https://www.livescience.com/39623-facts-about-radium.html
• Encyclopedia Britannica https://www.britannica.com/science/radium
• The Messed Up Truth About Radium Girls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPe81XKS30M
• The Atlantic Article https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/03/radium-girls-kate-moore/515685/

Further Reading

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women 

https://www.amazon.com/Radium-Girls-Story-Americas-Shining/dp/149264935X