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Dueber Hampden Watch Company First Case Made Photograph

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Title	Dueber Hampden Watch Company First Case Made Photograph
Subject	Business and Labor Clocks & watches
Place	Canton (Ohio) Stark County (Ohio)
Description	This photograph depicts the first case made at the Dueber Hampden factory in Canton on June 21, 1889. It measures 5.2" by 7.3" (13.3 by 18.5" cm). John C. Dueber bought the Hampden Watch Co. in Springfield Massachusetts in 1888, then moved it to Canton. By 1890, the company was producing 600 watches a day, had 1000 employees, and possessed net assets of $2,600,000. Dueber controlled all aspects of the company from manufacturing to sales. Each watch case was made of 57 pieces; they used 14-karat-gold cases and 17 jewel movements. Dueber sold the company to Walter Vrettman in 1925. Vrettman went bankrupt in 1927 and sold all of the company's equipment to Amtorg, a Russian purchasing company. Nearly 30 boxcars of machinery left Canton in 1931 with 21 former Dueber Hampden employees who contracted for one year to teach the Russians the craft of watchmaking. Conflicting information exists about the fate of the Russian enterprise, but Henry Fried, a horology professor at New York University, reported seeing Dueber Hampden machinery being used in China in 1986.
Creator	Dueber-Hampden Watch Co.
Date of Original	June 21, 1889
Source	Audiovisual material
Submitting Institution	McKinley Museum and National Memorial
Type	StillImage
Format	picture

Title	Om2341_1971757_005
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om2341_1971757_005.tif
Image Height	4384
Image Width	3123
File Size	5935.336 KB

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