Name/Title
McKinley Flag Campaign StudEntry/Object ID
2010.1.733 (C.1)Description
This item is a small campaign stud that is gold and white in color. In the center is the American flag that is surrounded by the text "In Gold We Trust, McKinley and Protection." .75" in diameter. The back contains the maker's name: "Dueber Watch Works, Canton, O."
"The Hampden Watch Co. began operation in Canton in 1888; the Dueber Watch Case Manufacturing Co. started in 1889. The two companies were incorporated separately and operated independently for 34 years, until they were merged and the name changed to the Dueber-Hampden Co., in the 1920s." *
"June 21, 1889, was a noteworthy day in the city of Canton, Ohio. 126 years ago this Sunday, the first watch case was made at the Dueber Hampden watch works in Canton, which would go on to become one of the city’s largest employers over the coming decades." **
* Brown, Gary, Jul 27, 2010, The Monday After: Event to revisit Dueber-Hampden. Retrieved from CantonRep.com, http://www.cantonrep.com/x1599842525/The-Monday-After-Hoover-Historical-Center-event-revisits-Dueber-Hampden
** Ohio History/Ohio Memory. About Time: The Dueber Hampden Watch Works, June 19, 2015, http://www.ohiohistoryhost.org/ohiomemory/archives/2364Collection
BechtelAcquisition
Accession
2010.1Source or Donor
Mr. BechtelAcquisition Method
Gift/PurchaseCredit Line
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