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Published copy of A few remarks upon the construction and principles of action of the aneroid barometer: with observations on the mercurial barometer, by Charles Frodsham (1810-1871).

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Volume of accounts mainly of Bond family members, including some related to William Bond & Son, and some accounts of Selina C. Bond and Sarah A.C. Bond, from 1857 to 1861.

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Ledger containing accounts of William Bond & Son with customers including the Boston and Providence Railroad, Harvard College Observatory, Vassar College, the United States Survey of the Colorado River, the United States Navy, and other government departments, dated from 1857 to 1870. There are charges for cleaning and repair of timepiece the sale of clocks, watches, chronographs, chronometers, and accessories. An index to names is included at the end of the volume.

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Ledger of William Bond & Son recording expenses related to running the business at 152 State Street in Boston, and billings to customers including Boston Optical Works, John Bliss & Co., Tiffany & Co., the United States Navy, the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and Vassar College from 1876 to 1917. There are a number of loose accounts and receipts, some correspondence, and a chronometer report to the U.S. Navy laid in. The front of the volume contains an index to names.

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Contains advertisements, circulars, and catalogs marketing the products and services of William Bond & Son including the sale of marine, sidereal, and electric break circuit chronometers and watch and clock repair, dated 1902-1906.

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Contains advertisements, price lists, and catalogs of competitors of William Bond & Son, including Tiffany & Co., Elgin National Watch Co., and American Watch Company, dated 1872-1883.

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Contains advertisements, price lists, and catalogs of competitors of William Bond & Son, including Barraud & Lunds and Richard & Co., circa 1870-1902 and undated.

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Contains three posters advertising the clocks of Richard & Co. of Paris, probably from circa 1880.

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Two copies of George P. Bond's publication on Donati's comet; one copy bears the signature of civil engineer John M. Batchelder.

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Contains copies of Alvan Clark's (1804-1887) New double stars (1858) and New micrometer for measuring large distances (1860); Richard F. Bond's Description of Bond's isodynamic escapement, for astronomical clocks (1860); an 1883 announcement from the Harvard College Observatory on the time change; and an undated brochure on Invar, a patented alloy of nickel-steel, issued by J.H. Agar Baugh, sole agent.

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Contains articles of indenture and employment between William Bond & Son with apprentices and other tradesmen, including London-based chronometer and clock maker John Hutton (active 1830-1868), dated 1852 to 1870. Also includes an invoice for work done for the firm.

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Undated albumen print of ten men in Asheville, North Carolina, with numbered identification of each name on the verso in an unknown hand. Removed from correspondence from Mary (Minnie) Bond to William C. Bond in box 2, folder 26.

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Contains mainly correspondence among the immediate Bond family, dated from 1808 to 1849, including letters to William Cranch Bond from his son, Richard F. Bond, regarding his efforts to secure chronometers in England. Additionally there are poems written by Reverend Joseph H. Clinch addressed to his wife.

Scope and Contents: Contains mainly correspondence among the immediate Bond family, dated from 1850 to 1854, including letters between Joseph C. Bond, George P. Bond, Richard F. Bond, and William Cranch Bond, regarding matters related to the clock making business and Harvard Observatory. A letter from George P. Bond in New Haven, Connecticut, mentions a visit with Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867), superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, and possibly displaying the company's Spring Governor at an...

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Contains correspondence mainly of the Bond siblings, including Richard F. Bond, George P. Bond, and Selina C. Bond, and other relatives, dated 1864 to 1868, on topics including personal news, deaths of family members, and travel. One letter to Selina is enclosed with wildflower specimens.

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Contains correspondence to Bond family members, chiefly Selina C. Bond, from friends and relatives, dated 1870-1878. There is also a letter from Sarah A.C. Bond to her son, William C. Bond.

Scope and Contents: Contains correspondence and social invitations to Bond family members, dated 1879-1882. There is a letter to Sarah A.C. Bond from Harvard College Observatory Director Edward C. Pickering (1846-1919) thanking her for donating a portrait, and a letter from Sarah A.C. Bond to her son, William C. Bond, regarding his partnership in William Bond & Son and other family matters. There are also letters to William C. Bond from friends and acquaintances, and a printed passenger list for the R.M.S....

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Contains letters to William C. Bond from friends, and several invitations to events such as a party on Harvard Class Day, dated 1883-1886.

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Contains social invitations addressed to Bond family members, dated 1887-1888. There are also letters of recommendation from several Harvard College stakeholders including Professor of the History of Art Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908; Harvard AB 1846), supporting a promotion for Sarah A.C. Bond at Harvard College Library.

Scope and Contents: Contains social invitations and correspondence to Bond family members and relatives, dated 1890-1897. Includes original and copied correspondence between Selina C. Bond and W. A. Cranch and James Cranch Willcocks of London, regarding the possible sale of a deed for the head of Oliver Cromwell to Horace Wilkinson. According to a copy of a letter from Selina C. Bond to Willcocks, the deed, dated April 1787, assigned ownership from Samuel Russell to James Cox. There is also a newspaper clipping...

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Contains undated correspondence, calling cards, and invitations of Bond family members, relatives, and friends, including William C. Bond and Joseph H. Clinch. There is also a letter from Mary (Minnie) Bond to her brother William C. Bond that contained a photograph of a group of men in Asheville, North Carolina, which was removed to box 6, folder 6.

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Undated family tree of William Cranch Bond in an unknown hand.

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This series includes medals awarded to William Bond & Son, several watches, and a chronometer.

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This series includes medals awarded to William Bond & Son, several watches, and a chronometer.

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Copper plate and empty envelope bearing the name and Malden, Massachusetts, address of the wife of William C. Bond.