Search Results for "Clockmaker"
Your search for posts with tags containing Clockmaker found 15 posts
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago this week? “… practised by very few in ENGLAND, and those esteemed the best Mechanicks in Europe.” Like many other artisans who migrated to the colonies in the eighteenth-century,...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “Watches will be well repaired, Clocks put in good Order.” It was the first advertisement that watchmaker Nathaniel Sheaff Griffith placed in the New-Hampshire Gazette...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago this week? “CLOCK and WATCH-MAKER, at the DIAL in WILMINGTON.” Two clock- and watchmakers advertised in the August 16, 1770, edition of the Pennsylvania Gazette, but they likely...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “Said HILLER has to sell, a Variety of Watch Chains, Strings, Keyes, Seals.” When Joseph Hiller, a clock- and watchmaker, set up shop in a new location, he inserted...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “He has the best of clarified Oyl, for Clock and Watches.” By the time that Nathaniel Sheaff Griffith placed his advertisement in the March 16, 1770, edition of the...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “He has engaged Two exceeding good Workmen.” While eighteenth-century artisans frequently promoted their own training and other credentials, relatively few devoted space...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “He still carries on Clock and Watch making as usual.” Nathaniel Sheaff Griffith, a clock- and watchmaker, was a prolific advertiser who frequently inserted notices...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? Newport Mercury (September 5, 1768).“He will clean a Clock and keep it in good Repair three Years for One Dollar.” When Robert Proud turned to the Newport Gazette...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? Providence Gazette (June 18, 1768).“Lessening the unnecessary Importation of such Articles as may be fabricated among ourselves.” Edward Spalding (sometimes Spauldin),...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? Pennsylvania Chronicle (May 16, 1768).“BURROWS DOWDNEY … MAKES and repairs all Kinds od Clocks and Watches.” When it came to advertising, watch- and clockmaker...
What was advertised in an American newspaper 250 years ago this week? Supplement to the Pennsylvania Gazette (May 12, 1768).“BURROWS DOWDNEY, Clock and Watch Maker, in Front-street.” Relatively few advertisements in eighteenth-century newspapers...
GUEST CURATOR: Megan Watts What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? Georgia Gazette (April 8, 1767).“William Watt, Watch and Clock-maker.” I chose this advertisement because it addressed a unique occupation:...
GUEST CURATOR: Evan Sutherland What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? Georgia Gazette (April 1, 1767).“The CLOCK and WATCH MAKING BUSINESS in all its branches.” Adrian Loyer announced that he “carr[ied]...
What was advertised in a colonial America newspaper 250 years ago today? South-Carolina and American General Gazette (February 6, 1767).“ALEXANDER KIRKWOOD, Watch and Clock Maker from London, HAS taken shop.” A print of An Exact Prospect of...
What was advertised in a colonial newspaper 250 years ago this week? Providence Gazette (August 23, 1766).“THE Subscriber … still carries on the Business of cleaning and repairing CLOCKS and WATCHES.” Publication of the Providence Gazette...
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