Scrapbook Four, First Half
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content: Jon and Jennifer Hanson Watch and Clock Collection
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content: Jon and Jennifer Hanson Watch and Clock Collection / Series 5: 2016.3197 Addenda / 5.4: Scrapbooks
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content: 1926-1974
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content: Box 30, Folder 3
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Dates span from 1926 to 1974, with emphasis on the 1930s and 1960s.

Types of contents include clippings or whole excerpts from newspaper, magazine, and journal articles, photographs, foreign (French and German) clippings from newspaper articles, and miscellaneous publications/documents.

Contents include watch, clock, and time-related information about art, poetry, museums, history, technological achievements, and current events. Specific topics include Hamilton advertising/publications, Chinese and Greek drill history, antique events, the Geneva horological school and clock, antique clock history and discoveries, Swiss watchmaking, watch repair services, and the American clock 1725-1865. Specific subjects of interest include a New York Times article describing how a watch ticking becomes a murder clue, as the watch was found running on a dead body (of a person missing for two weeks), and the fact that the watch was running indicated the death was recent; poetry on the subjects of clocks, time, and watchmakers; a 1943 article about the German-Swiss commercial relationship, the "Nazi-Swiss agreement" and its implications on watchmaking; and Jean Roehrich's invitation to Geneva, Switzerland, for watch conferences.