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Comb making in America, an account of the origin and development of the industry for which Leominster has become famous, to which are added pictures of many of the early comb makers and views of the old time comb shops

Walton, Perry, 1865-1941, Doyle, Bernard W, Viscoloid company, inc., Leominster, Mass · 1925 · [Boston] · 15 pictures

A 1925 Boston publication by Perry Walton, Bernard W. Doyle and the Viscoloid Company of Leominster, Massachusetts, tracing the American comb industry for its own community and collectors of local industrial history. The pictures show a rotated photograph of an old comb shop, a factory building, clapboard houses, and hand tools on a board, offering a designer documentary views of early New England industrial architecture and workshop equipment.

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