Book/Printed Material [Connecticut Clockmaker (Botsford)]
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Image 1 of [Connecticut Clockmaker (Botsford)] giONORS OMNI t OCRIONT8 ORI0411AL 148 OR MELD MRS Obi ono jaiviag Lore in low IIInglaud MIR- Contributor: Botsford, Arthur - Donovan, Francis
- Date: 1938-11-17
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Image 2 of [Connecticut Clockmaker (Botsford)] Field Worker Francis Donovan Thomaston Connecticut Field Copy for LIVING LORE IN NEW ENGLAND Subject Connecticut Clockmakers Informant Arthur Botsford Native born 80 years of age Retired Mr Botsford worked as a…- Contributor: Botsford, Arthur - Donovan, Francis
- Date: 1938-11-17
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Image 3 of [Connecticut Clockmaker (Botsford)] _ X731 F SETH THOMAS CLOCK COMPANY Employees of this company were selected as our clients for investigation because of the age of the company its influence in the community control over…- Contributor: Botsford, Arthur - Donovan, Francis
- Date: 1938-11-17
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Image 4 of [Connecticut Clockmaker (Botsford)] Seth Thomas Clock Company 2 The Thomaston school children used to chant Ashes to ashes Dust to dust If the Case Shop dont get you The Movement Shop must And they were…- Contributor: Botsford, Arthur - Donovan, Francis
- Date: 1938-11-17
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Image 5 of [Connecticut Clockmaker (Botsford)] Seth Thomas Clock Company 3 keeping records were adopted Every employee entered his name in that old Day Book made notation as to the time he worked and what his job was…- Contributor: Botsford, Arthur - Donovan, Francis
- Date: 1938-11-17
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Image 6 of [Connecticut Clockmaker (Botsford)] Seth Thomas Clock Company 4 Worked for Sanford four years after he came here and then he got in the clock shop and worked there till he died There were two places…- Contributor: Botsford, Arthur - Donovan, Francis
- Date: 1938-11-17
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Image 7 of [Connecticut Clockmaker (Botsford)] Seth Thomas Clock Company la 5 stone fell on that But I dont knows you want to hear about all that Then there was Ransom Sanford and his sons made verges in…- Contributor: Botsford, Arthur - Donovan, Francis
- Date: 1938-11-17
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Image 8 of [Connecticut Clockmaker (Botsford)] Seth Thomas Clock Company 6 what you got once a year At the end of that time some of them owed him money the ones that worked for him I mean theyd…- Contributor: Botsford, Arthur - Donovan, Francis
- Date: 1938-11-17
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Image 9 of [Connecticut Clockmaker (Botsford)] Seth Thomas Clock Company 7 r day he married one of the They called him Squire Morse After he give up the clock business he started up the knife shop down to…- Contributor: Botsford, Arthur - Donovan, Francis
- Date: 1938-11-17
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Image 10 of [Connecticut Clockmaker (Botsford)] Seth Thanes Clock Company 8 going It was all in the papers but I suppose most people have forgotten about it now 1den4retvemtrerwireityear4ti 5Then there was them two clocks they made for…- Contributor: Botsford, Arthur - Donovan, Francis
- Date: 1938-11-17
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Image 11 of [Connecticut Clockmaker (Botsford)] Seth Thomas Clock Company 9 a teamster for the company at this wage carting heavy brass ingots to and from the rolling mill and thought he was lucky to get it He…- Contributor: Botsford, Arthur - Donovan, Francis
- Date: 1938-11-17
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Image 12 of [Connecticut Clockmaker (Botsford)] Seth Thomas Clock Company 10 to the old Cotton Mill and still continued to make the cases in what is known to this day as the Case Shop oniSouth Mein Street Old…- Contributor: Botsford, Arthur - Donovan, Francis
- Date: 1938-11-17
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Image 13 of [Connecticut Clockmaker (Botsford)] Seth Thomas Clock Company 11 west wing But the dispute got settled or arbitrated or whatever you call it and shortly afterward they merged into one company again Marine clock That was…- Contributor: Botsford, Arthur - Donovan, Francis
- Date: 1938-11-17
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Image 14 of [Connecticut Clockmaker (Botsford)] Seth Thomas Clock Company 12 Mr Botsford produced an wooden movement of which he was obviously proud I could take this clock today and put a pendulum and a dial on it…- Contributor: Botsford, Arthur - Donovan, Francis
- Date: 1938-11-17
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Image 15 of [Connecticut Clockmaker (Botsford)] Seth Thomas Clock Company Reason they worked there I guess is that Frank Grossman he used to be superintendent of one of the plants had a deaf an4aumb brother and he kind…- Contributor: Botsford, Arthur - Donovan, Francis
- Date: 1938-11-17
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Image 16 of [Connecticut Clockmaker (Botsford)] closing par taken from other Botsford material use one of the following which do you prefer When the Irish came in here they were treated by the old settlers just like their…- Contributor: Botsford, Arthur - Donovan, Francis
- Date: 1938-11-17
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Image 17 of [Connecticut Clockmaker (Botsford)] Seth Thomas Clock Company _ ally But they didnt know anything about mass production Oh yes Ill grant you German clockmakers know their business They have to be able to assemble a…- Contributor: Botsford, Arthur - Donovan, Francis
- Date: 1938-11-17
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Image 18 of [Connecticut Clockmaker (Botsford)] Seth Thomas Clock Company 15 now stands It used to be run they tell me by old Aunt Hannah Williams Gus Blakeslees wifes mother but hell I cant tell you anything about…- Contributor: Botsford, Arthur - Donovan, Francis
- Date: 1938-11-17
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Image 19 of [Connecticut Clockmaker (Botsford)] Seth Thomas Clock Company down the fire department did 40 they got five hundred people on the and of a rope and pulled and down she cede Lots of the boys was…- Contributor: Botsford, Arthur - Donovan, Francis
- Date: 1938-11-17
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Image 20 of [Connecticut Clockmaker (Botsford)] Seth Thomas Clock Company 17 and one on either side and I remember a tale about an IriShman Who used to take a drop too much ones in a while and always…- Contributor: Botsford, Arthur - Donovan, Francis
- Date: 1938-11-17
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Image 21 of [Connecticut Clockmaker (Botsford)] Seth Thomas Clock Company g 18 410ittakeieklit Social life in them days was largely connected with churchgoing There wasnt any automobiles or movies All the young folks used to go to church…- Contributor: Botsford, Arthur - Donovan, Francis
- Date: 1938-11-17
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Image 22 of [Connecticut Clockmaker (Botsford)] Seth Thomas Clock Company 19 relations this little fellow here hots grown up now and is professor of agriculture in the New Milford schools I wisht Id kept files darn it sots…- Contributor: Botsford, Arthur - Donovan, Francis
- Date: 1938-11-17
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Image 23 of [Connecticut Clockmaker (Botsford)] Seth Thomas Clock Company 20 M R Kaiser Former Superintendent Seth Thomas Clock Co Yes I remember the old Criterion club and I remember the incident you speak of but Im not…- Contributor: Botsford, Arthur - Donovan, Francis
- Date: 1938-11-17
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Image 24 of [Connecticut Clockmaker (Botsford)] dirty work Be raised a big hullaballoo about infernal machines and got all the others worked up sos they were afraid to go near it and those who were a bit timid…- Contributor: Botsford, Arthur - Donovan, Francis
- Date: 1938-11-17
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Image 25 of [Connecticut Clockmaker (Botsford)] They were always playing tricks in those days The Criterion club was known as a high class organization and their affairs every year were outstanding social events They used to give a…- Contributor: Botsford, Arthur - Donovan, Francis
- Date: 1938-11-17
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Image 26 of [Connecticut Clockmaker (Botsford)] over a hundred years ago this building was a clock factory and was later the hone ot other industries It there for has a part in the industrial history of Thomaston Marvin…- Contributor: Botsford, Arthur - Donovan, Francis
- Date: 1938-11-17
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Image 27 of [Connecticut Clockmaker (Botsford)] a Nelson Bradley brought back the touch of Thomastons bestknown industry clocks by turning out verges In due time however the place fell into the hands of owners who made a radical…- Contributor: Botsford, Arthur - Donovan, Francis
- Date: 1938-11-17
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Image 28 of [Connecticut Clockmaker (Botsford)] Seth Thomas Clock Company 25 S but Ill tell you the most important facts and let you piece it together We used to have a man here in town was always trying…- Contributor: Botsford, Arthur - Donovan, Francis
- Date: 1938-11-17
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Image 29 of [Connecticut Clockmaker (Botsford)] Seth Thomas Clock Company 2 6 Frank says if we can get things started about makin a monument out of it hell do the castin and engravin and all for nothin Thatll…- Contributor: Botsford, Arthur - Donovan, Francis
- Date: 1938-11-17
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Image 30 of [Connecticut Clockmaker (Botsford)] Seth Thomas Clock Company 27 and he got hoppino mad EA went out to look at the clock and he found that a whole bunch of pigeons had roosted there and thats…- Contributor: Botsford, Arthur - Donovan, Francis
- Date: 1938-11-17
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Image 31 of [Connecticut Clockmaker (Botsford)] Seth Thomas Clock Company 28 George Troland Yankee Mr Troland an adjuster by trade has been engaged for 35 years at his wort in practically every clock factory in the state except…- Contributor: Botsford, Arthur - Donovan, Francis
- Date: 1938-11-17
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Image 32 of [Connecticut Clockmaker (Botsford)] Seth Thomas Clock Company 29 George Troland Yankee I used to work for the Waterbury Clock Company before they started making Ingersoll B I saw old man Ingersoll many a time he…- Contributor: Botsford, Arthur - Donovan, Francis
- Date: 1938-11-17
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Image 33 of [Connecticut Clockmaker (Botsford)] Seth Thomas Clock Company 509 Off timers are clocks which have been timed and still are not precise In other words they must be timed over again Troland Senior When I first…- Contributor: Botsford, Arthur - Donovan, Francis
- Date: 1938-11-17