Shelf Calendar Clock
date: label: date made
content: ca 1875
label: date made
content: ca 1875-1900
name: label: maker
content: Ithaca Calendar Clock Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is an example of an Ithaca Calendar Clock model called “3 ½ Parlor” from the mid 1870s. Its walnut case has ebonized decorative elements. The black upper dial shows the time in white Roman numerals, with winding arbors at IIII and VIII for the brass eight-day time-and-strike spring-driven movement behind the dial. Lower clear glass has reverse-painted white Arabic numerals for date of the month. Metal calendar apparatus visible inside case, where rotating wheels show weekday and month.
label: Description
content: The Ithaca Calendar Clock Co., established in Ithaca, N.Y., about 1865, made clocks based on the automatic perpetual calendar mechanism patented by Henry Bishop Horton in 1865 and 1866 (see patent 57,510).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanisms
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: I.B.M. Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.328555
label: catalog number
content: 328555
label: accession number
content: 272366
objectType: label: Object Name
content: clock
label: Other Terms
content: clock; Shelf Clock
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (case material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 in x 10 1/4 in x 5 3/8 in; 50.8 cm x 26.035 cm x 13.6525 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 1/4 in x 10 1/4 in x 5 3/8 in; 51.435 cm x 26.035 cm x 13.6525 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: container: 2 in x 7 1/2 in x 7 1/4 in; 5.08 cm x 19.05 cm x 18.415 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: container: 4 3/4 in x 3 in x 1/16 in; 12.065 cm x 7.62 cm x .15875 cm