N. E. Norton

Creator

Preview

Identifier

20029788

Description

N. E. Norton's hobby began with a request for a hunting knife. He was unable to find a six-inch blade for his soldier nephew, so he gathered broken truck springs from the city garage and started making his first knife. More than a year later, Mr. Norton is in the final stages of knife number 106. He is holding a knife similar to the ones he makes for servicemen. When completed, the oil-tempered knives have an overall length of eight and a half inches, a blade width of two inches and weighs three pounds. Each knife cost Mr. Norton $1.08 to make and four hours of his time. The only payment he receives is a letter from the servicemen when the knife is received. Mr. Norton is standing in his garage. He is wearing a hat, button-up shirt, and trousers.

Archival Date

1944-02-17

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-329

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

Rights

Rights held by The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections. Any use of content downloaded or printed from this page is limited to non-commercial personal or educational use, including fair use as directed by U.S. copyright laws. For more information or for reproduction requests, please contact UTA Special Collections by emailing spcoref@uta.edu.

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Subjects

Norton, N. E.; Knives; Hobbies