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Waltham Watch Works

Subject
Factories & Mills
Card type
Lithograph
Date
c. 1907 (Golden Age)
Front of Waltham Watch Works, c. 1907 lithograph postcard
Front
Back of Waltham Watch Works, c. 1907 lithograph postcard
Back

About this subject

The Waltham Watch Works factory complex along the Charles River, with a tall smokestack and several mill buildings reflected in the water; foreground marsh with green vegetation.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

Your P.C. received, thank you very much. Waltham is called the Watch City because of its Watch Factories. This is one of them. The most famous is the American Waltham which is not as large a factory Your friend Grace J Montackle 35 9/12 Moody St. Waltham Mass.

PublisherThe Robbins Bros. Co.
Waltham Watch Works. Waltham, Mass. --- No. H. 13565 The Robbins Bros. Co., Boston, Mass. and Germany
PostmarkedWaltham, MA, September 13, 1909, 16:00
Stamp
Addressed to
Charles R. Groves

504 N 5th St., Terre Haute, Ind.

From359 1/2 Moody St, Waltham, Mass.

Postcard record

Postmarked, Waltham, MA
ConditionGood
Place addressedCharles R. Groves, 504 N 5th St., Terre Haute, IN
Place depicted11 Harvard St, Waltham, MA, 02453
Place depictedWaltham Watch Works, Waltham, MA
PublisherThe Robbins Bros. Co., Box 8000, WNAC-TV, Boston, MA, 02114
Place sent from11 Harvard St, Waltham, MA, 02453
Stamp1c Andrew Jackson, green
NotesPostmarked on front; white border; printed caption in red; small red circular mark lower right. Postmark: WALTHAM MASS. SEP 13 4-PM 1909. Divided-back card; full-bleed front (no white border); colored halftone/chromolith texture. 1c green Washington stamp present, tied by flag cancellation. Message written sideways along left edge in pencil, plus a green-ink note at lower right.

Cite this card

Waltham Watch Works, postcard, c. 1907. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/waltham-watch-works. Accessed October 5, 2026.