The King's Arms Barber Shop
King's Arms Barber Shop (Williamsburg, Va.)
Handicraft - Virginia - Williamsburg
Stores & shops - Virginia - Williamsburg
Postcards - Virginia - Williamsburg
Recto and verso of postcard titled "The King's Arms Barber Shop, Williamsburg, Virginia." Text on verso reads: "The colonial perukemaker provided a number of basic services: fashioning, selling, and dressing wigs and false hair pieces; cutting and dressing natural hair; and shaving men."
Colonial Williamsburg
H. S. Crocker Co. Inc.
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Wigmaker's Shop, Williamsburg, Virginia
Wigmakers - Virginia - Williamsburg
Block 09. Building 29B.
King's Arms Barber Shop (Williamsburg, Va.)
Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Postcard featuring a view of the interior of the King's Arms Barber Shop with the wigmaker at work, published by H.S. Crocker Co., Inc. for Colonial Williamsburg, ca. 1950s.
Caption reads: "The Williamsburg barber or wigmaker usually performed at least one and frequently all three of the Craft's basic services: (1) making, selling, and dressing wigs and false hairpieces for men and women (2) cutting and dressing men's, women's, and children's natural hair and (3) shaving men. Here he dresses a wig typical of the type that would have been used by a gentleman in eighteenth-century Virginia."
H.S. Crocker Co., Inc.
Colonial Williamsburg, Inc.
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Block 9: Duke of Gloucester Street
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Charlton House (Williamsburg, Va.)
John Coke Office (Williamsburg, Va.)
Kings Arms Barber Shop (Williamsburg, Va.)
Kings Arms Tavern (Williamsburg, Va.)
Palmer House (Williamsburg, Va.)
Palmer Kitchen (Williamsburg, Va.)
Shields Tavern (Williamsburg, Va.)
Tarpley's Store (Williamsburg, Va.)
Walthoe House (Williamsburg, Va.)
Wetherburn's Tavern (Williamsburg, Va.)
Historic buildings -- Virginia -- Williamsburg
<p>This view, looking south along Duke of Gloucester Street at Block 9, bordered by Blair and Botetourt Streets, shows a number of businesses and residences. Depicted are the Kerr House and Kitchen (now the Palmer House and Kitchen), <a href="http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/View/index.cfm?doc=ResearchReports%5CRR1135.xml">Walthoe House</a>, English Coffee House (now Shields Tavern), Tilledge House (now the <a href="http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/View/index.cfm?doc=ResearchReports%5CRR1145.xml">John Coke Office</a>), Purdie's Dwelling (now part of the Kings Arms Tavern), the King's Arms Tavern and Barber Shop, Charlton's Inn (now the Charlton House), the Bland House (now Wetherburn's Tavern) and Tarpley's Store.</p>
Moorehead, Singleton P.
Singleton P. Moorehead Streetscapes
Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
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