Hunting Case Pocket Watch
date: label: date made
content: ca 1876
label: date made
content: 1873
name: label: maker
content: Howard Watch Company
notes: label: Description
content: This stem-winding watch was made by E. Howard and Company of Boston, Mass. The firm was an American pioneer in building the high-quality stem-winding watches that replaced key-wound watches in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
label: Description
content: Company founder Edward Howard began a clockmaking business in 1842, branched out into watchmaking about 1850 with partners in what would eventually become the American Watch Company in Waltham and then left to form his own watch company in 1858. Howard retired in 1881, but the firm carried on under various names until the early 21st century.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanisms
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: James Arthur Collection, New York University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0416.229
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0416.229
label: accession number
content: 1984.0416
objectType: label: Object Name
content: watch
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/8 in x 2 1/4 in x 5/8 in; 7.9375 cm x 5.715 cm x 1.5875 cm
label: Measurements
content: open: 2 5/8 in x 3 1/4 in; 6.6675 cm x 8.255 cm