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Around the Clock

by The Library of Congress

Now that it's harder to find clocks in public places, take a minute to peruse a selection of clock images drawn from the Prints & Photographs Division's collections.

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Tokei to takarabune no kakejiku (LOC)

Taken just as the Great Floral Clock struck the half hour, World's Fair, St. Louis, Mo. (LOC)

Clock of House (LOC)

[Floral clock, Gladwin Park (Water Works Park), Detroit, Mich.] (LOC)

[The great clock, Rouen, France] (LOC)

[Façade with clock of City Hall. Prague] (LOC)

Victory! Congress passes daylight saving bill (LOC)

Concourse clock at Grand Central Station, New York, New York (LOC)

Detroit, Michigan. Griswold Division Division Division and State Street, showing a clock and stop sign (LOC)

[Man with clocks] (LOC)

Copper Kettle clock, Ocean City, New Jersey (LOC)

Clock exhibit, German sec. M.R. (LOC)

Canterbury street clock, North Main Street, Twin Falls, Idaho (LOC)

The Federal Theatre Div. of W.P.A. presents "Ten minute alibi" [by] Anthony Armstrong A startling mystery in 3 acts. (LOC)

Fine diamonds, reliable watches, artistic jewelry, standard silverware (LOC)

"Your mellow chimes awaken men to start the day 'on time' Big Ben" (LOC)

[Captive balloon with clock face and bell, floating above the Eiffel Tower, Paris, France] (LOC)

Y.W.C.A. Clock (LOC)

Irish Times Pub Clock-sign, Main Street, Butte, Montana (LOC)

Flora's timepiece--a great clock made of living plants in Princes St. Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland (LOC)

A vintage street clock in Rapid City, the principal metropolis in far-western South Dakota, within that state's within that state's portion of the Black Hills range (LOC)

NAVAL OBSERVATORY. C.B. WATTS TURNING BACK THE CLOCK (LOC)

Donut Time, 3401 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA (LOC)

Setting the clocks hands by radio. U.S. Dunmore Bureau of Standards who adopted clock to radio control (LOC)