1978
GUSN-169863
Enoch Noyes was a farmer living in Old Newbury, Mass., in the mid-18th century. A shop Noyes set up in his own house is suggested to be the beginning of the American combmaking industry. Mary Musser follows the rise and fall of combmaking in what was once the country's combmaking capital.
Article ID 244
SC001
Old-Time New England
SC001.1978.068.251.005
Enoch Noyes was a farmer living in Old Newbury, Mass., in the mid-18th century. A shop Noyes set up in his own house is suggested to be the beginning of the American combmaking industry. Mary Musser follows the rise and fall of combmaking in what was once the country's combmaking capital.
Volume 68, Number 251 (Winter/Spring, 1978)
Mary Musser (Author)
(1978). Old Time New England. Boston, Mass.: Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities.
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Boston, Mass.
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
Old Time New England
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