Clock and Watch Makers, United States
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:
Aaron Dennison Collection
Collection
Identifier: MG-321
Scope and Contents
This collection includes articles, correspondence, and genealogy related to Aaron Dennison.
Bulova Collection
Collection
Identifier: MG-025
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of various materials related to the watch company, Bulova. The documents span several decades of the company's history. This includes information on their corporate headquarters, manufacturing reports and drawings, repair and service manuals, and a number of documents on the Accutron.There are a number of annual reports and internal documents as well as information on the history of the company. There are several documents on the Bulova School of...
Car Clocks Collection
Collection
Identifier: MG-329
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photocopies of advertisements for car clocks dating from 1914-1970. There is one original document from 1914, the remaining documents are modern photocopies.
The copies are separated into four volumes.
Charles T. Treadway Papers
Collection
Identifier: MG-305
Content Description
This collection includes information and papers from the early years of the Bristol Museum (later the American Clock & Watch Museum) in Bristol, Connecticut. Additionally, the collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, and Eli Terry family genealogy.
David M. Munro Collection
Collection
Identifier: MG-438
Content Description
This collection includes three drawings related to a clock made by David M. Munro. The tall-case clock in question is part of the National Watch and Clock Museum collection and is a 14-day time and strike brass movement with perpetual calendar. It is a clock that automatically adjusts for daylight savings time. The schematics in this collection primarily focus on the dial and pendulum, as well as one drawing of unidentified measurements.
Ed Lafond Collection
Collection
Identifier: MG-375
Scope and Contents
This collection includes preliminary photographs and notes for a book on the Winterthur Clock Collection.
Erastus Hodges Collection
Collection
Identifier: MG-358
Scope and Contents
This collection represents the remaining papers and effects of Erastus Hodges, his children, remaining family and business partners in the form of photocopies. The collection was assembled by Theodore B. Hodges, Erastus's great-great grandson. The collection was then used to write his book on behalf of the NAWCC. The book, titled "Erastus Hodges," remains in the collection of the NAWCC library and is a look into the life of early clock merchants in America. The collection contains photocopies...
Frederick Shelley Collection
Collection
Identifier: MG-424
Content Description
This collection is comprised primarily of photographic material and illustrations and charts used in the book Early American Tower Clocks, by Frederick Shelley. This includes phtographs and illustrative material used for the dust jacket, introductory pages, and the body of book as well. The informtion included with these illustrative material includes publishing information, as well. This includes the pages the photographs are to be printed on as well as to what...
General Time Factory Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: MG-435
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of various photographs related to the General Time Factory in Athens, Georgia. This includes photographs of the factory,employees, and events throughout the latter half of the 20th Century.
The photographs of the factory itself are of the interior as well as the exterior of the factory, including the factory floor and assembly, and the offices in the building as well. There are a number of personnel photographs in this collection, most of them not dated...
Hamilton Design Files and Project Report Collection
Collection
Identifier: MG-414
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the design records and reports of projects dating from the 1940s and the 1950s. Primarily, these reports are from post-WWII, however there are some reports compiled by British Intelligence that seem to date from the WWII era.
The design records include information of various Hamilton watch model movements, including design changes, memos, technical drawings and schematics, test results, and calculations.
The reports included are...