Clocks and watches -- New York (State)
Subject
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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.
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.