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Stretch: America's First Family of Clockmakers
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Product Description: This volume presents the definitive history of the UK-born Stretch family of clock-makers who emigrated to Philadelphia in 1703 and played an influential role in the city's early clock-making, civic, and Quaker communities. Initial essays discuss the family and the importance of their Quaker beliefs; time-telling and the clock making community in pre-1750 Philadelphia; innovative mechanical advances made by the Stretches; and their notable civic and cultural contributions to the city...read more
By Donald L. Fennimore and Frank L. Hohmann, III
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9780912724706 | Winterthur Museum, October 16, 2013, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: This volume presents the definitive history of the UK-born Stretch family of clock-makers who emigrated to Philadelphia in 1703 and played an influential role in the city's early clock-making, civic, and Quaker communities.

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