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Our story of the Adams & Perry Watch Company and the early watch companies of Lancaster, Pa

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17711

Author: Meyer, George.

Responsibility: by George Meyer and Burt Cifrulak.

Author: Meyer, George.

Physical Description: 227-237.

Subjects: Perry, Edwin Hathaway.; Adams, John C.; Bitner, Charles Augustus.; Bitner, Abraham.; Zahn, Edward J.; Best, John.; Todd, William N.; Moseley, Charles S.; Adams & Perry Watch Company (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.; Lancaster Watch Company (Lancaster, Pa.); Keystone Standard Watch Company - History.; Clocks and watches.

Contained In: vol 55/3, no. 402, May-June 2013.Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County681.1 M612

Clocks - Information file

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21621

Call Number: Information file - Clocks

Notes: Information files are created for specific subjects that are associated with Lancaster County, e.g. "Rebman's scrap pile", "Ten-hour house". The files contain newspaper and magazine articles about the subject.

Subjects: Clocks and watches.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Information File

Call Number: Information file - Clocks

Tomorrow in the making : the story of Hamilton watches and the war

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17635

Date of Publication: 1943.

Call Number: 681.1 T661 Oversize

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Hamilton Watch Company ,

Date of Publication: 1943.

Physical Description: [34 p.] : ill. port ; 36 cm.

Notes: Title from cover.

Subjects: Hamilton Watch Company - History.; Clocks and watches.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 681.1 T661 Oversize

Furniture treasury : (mostly of American origin). All periods of American furniture with some foreign examples in America, also American hardware and household utensils. 5000 illustrations with descriptions on the same page

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Author: Nutting, Wallace,

Date of Publication: 1961 [c1928]

Call Number: 749.2 N988

Responsibility: by Wallace Nutting.

Author: Nutting, Wallace,

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Macmillan Co.,

Date of Publication: 1961 [c1928]

Physical Description: 2 v. in 1 : chiefly ill. ; 27 cm.

Notes: "Unabridged."

Subjects: Furniture - United States.; Hardware - United States.; Implements, utensils, etc.; Clocks and watches.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 749.2 N988

The clock book

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Author: Nutting, Wallace,

Date of Publication: [c1935]

Call Number: 681 N986

Responsibility: by Wallace Nutting; being a description of foreign and American antique clocks, and a list of their makers. Profusely illustrated.

Author: Nutting, Wallace,

Place of Publication: Garden City, N.Y

Publisher: Pub. in coÃ¶peration with Old America Company by the Garden City Publishing Co., inc.

Date of Publication: [c1935]

Physical Description: 312 p. incl. illus., plates, port., facsims. 26 cm.

Notes: Plates printed on both sides.; "List of American clockmakers": p. 201-239.; "List of foreign clockmakers": p. 240-307.

Subjects: Clocks and watches.; Clock and watch makers.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 681 N986

Centennial of watchmaking in Lancaster, Pa

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15874

Author: Gibbs, James W.

Call Number: 681.1 G443

Responsibility: by James W. Gibbs.

Author: Gibbs, James W.

Physical Description: 691-705 p.

Notes: In: Bulletin of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, Inc., v.16, no.7 (Dec. 1974)

Subjects: Bowman, Ezra F. , - 1847-1901.; Dudley, William W. , - 1851-1938.; Hamilton Watch Company - History.; Adams and Perry Watch Manufacturing Company - History.; Lancaster, Pa., Watch Company - History.; Lancaster Watch Company - History.; Keystone Watch Company - History.; Bowman Technical School (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.; Clocks and watches.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 681.1 G443

Lancaster's part in the world's watchmaking industry

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo594

Author: Bowman, J. J.

Date of Publication: 1945

Lancaster's Part in The Worlds Watchmaking Industry By JOHN J. BOWMAN The importance of timekeeping to all of us, and the fact that our city, for nearly three-quarters of a century, has been an im- portant center of the American watchmaking industry, together make the subject of this paper

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Responsibility: by John J. Bowman.

Author: Bowman, J. J.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1945

Physical Description: [29]-50 P. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 49, no. 2

Subjects: Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, - 1732-1799.; Bowman, Ezra F.; Hamilton Watch Company.; Bowman Technical School, (Lancaster, Pa.); Adams & Perry Company (Lancaster, Pa.); Dudley Watch Manufacturing Company (Lancaster, Pa.); Lancaster Watch Company (Lancaster, Pa.); Clocks and watches.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 49, number 2 (1945), p. 29-50Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.49

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VollstÃ¤ndiges Handbuch der Uhrmacherkunst

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Author: Schreiber, Emanuel.

Edition: 4te ... vermehrte Aufl.

Date of Publication: 1865.

Call Number: 681 W418 1865

Author: Schreiber, Emanuel.

Edition: 4te ... vermehrte Aufl.

Place of Publication: Weimar

Date of Publication: 1865.

Physical Description: 34 + 613 p. Atlas. 358 pl.

Series: Neuer Schauplatz der KÃ¼nste und Handwerke ; v. 171

Notes: Ezra F. Bowman stamped in gold on front cover.

Subjects: Clocks and watches.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 681 W418 1865

Rudy Stoner, 1728-1769 : early Lancaster, Pennsylvania, clockmaker

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15657

Author: Wood, Stacy B.C. ,

Call Number: 681.2 S881w

Responsibility: by Stacy B.C. Wood, Jr.

Author: Wood, Stacy B.C. ,

Physical Description: 21-32.

Notes: In: Bulletin of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, Inc. v.19, no.1 (Feb. 1977); Following the article on p.33 is a biography of Mr. Wood, the new Headquarters and Administrator and Museum Curator.

Subjects: Wood, Stacy B.C., Jr.; Stoner, Rudy , - 1728-1769.; Clocks and watches.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 681.2 S881w

Timely topics, Hamilton Watch Company: 75th anniversary issue, December 1967

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7521

Call Number: 681.1 H165

Physical Description: 18 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Contents: Lancaster poineers -- Hamilton - A brief history -- Where we are -- Same theme for 75 years -- Hamilton's first board of directors -- Hamilton presidents -- Master craftsman -- Where time really counts -- Main ingredient for success -- Some Hamilton products.

Subjects: Hamilton Watch Company - History.; Clocks and watches.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 681.1 H165

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