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Ithaca Calendar Clock Company

 Organization

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Edward L. Eich miscellany

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064939501]
Identifier: 2404
Scope and content Ithaca Calendar Clock Company catalogue and price list, 1880; a description of J.E. Young's patented calendar clock, manufactured by Genoa Calendar Clock Company, 1880; pamphlet on the commencement of construction of the Auburn and Owasco Canal, 1835; pamphlet on the 27th annual reunion of the "Old Bucktails," or First Rifle Regiment of the Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps (42nd Pennsylvania Regiment in the Civil War), 1914; patent issued to four Ithaca, New York residents (Eugene M....
Dates: 1835 - 1979; Majority of material found within 1864 - 1880

Ithaca Calendar Clock Company items

 Collection — Manuscript box 8 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065240982]
Identifier: 1235m
Scope and content Illustrated catalogue description of some of the clocks offered for sale, circa 1870; galley proofs of two articles for New York State Antiques magazine, one on calendar clocks in upstate New York (by Jerome Kates), the other on the Ithaca Calendar Clock Company in particular (by John G. Brooks), both articles undated; and a typescript copy of an article from the centennial number of the Ithaca Journal, October 28, 1939, on the history of the company. Also, a typescript essay, "Ithaca...
Dates: circa 1870-1941.

Ithaca calendar clock correspondence

 Collection — Manuscript box 3 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065264271]
Identifier: 3-9-m.542
Scope and content

Correspondence between Cornell President Malott and Eugene F. Bradford, Registrar Emeritus and others, concerning the Ithaca Calendar Clock hanging in the President's Office, 1962.

Dates: 1962.

Johnson family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1200
Abstract Family and business papers of Benjamin Johnson, including early Tompkins county deeds; bills; gristmill, teamsters', and personal accounts (1816-1878); correspondence and papers relating to the interest of Jesse Johnson and Charles D. Johnson in the Ithaca Calendar Clock Company and in a brick-making venture (1867-1870); membership papers of Charles D. Johnson in the Royal Templars of Temperance (1880); numerous letters written to family and business associates by Benjamin Johnson, a...
Dates: 1816-1936.

Randolph Horton papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1799
Abstract

Primarily legal papers pertaining to various cases over which Judge Horton presided while Justice of the New York State Supreme Court, 6th Judicial District or as a private attorney; also, correspondence and papers (1917-1919) relating to the Ithaca Calendar Clock Company, of which Horton was a trustee, mainly in connection with its going into receivership and with its dissolution.

Dates: 1877-1928.

Upstate New York calendar clock items

 Collection — Manuscript box 14 - folder 0: [Barcode: 31924065242202]
Identifier: 2845m
Scope and content Collection consists mainly of patents issued for improvements to calendar clocks: patents issued to J.E. (James E.) Young of the Genoa Calendar Clock Company of Genoa, New York; to George R. Williams of Ithaca; and to Henry B. Horton of Ithaca. Also, letter from George W. Wood of George W. Wood & Company, agents of the middle states for the Ithaca Calendar Clock Company, to W.J. Hancox, offering him a deal on clocks to sell "in territory not already occupied." Also included is an...
Dates: 1866-1883.

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Subject
Clocks and watches -- New York (State) 2
Clocks and watches -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 2
Auburn and Owasco Canal. 1
Bankruptcy. 1
Brickmaking -- New York (State) -- Tompkins County. 1