Combination Cash Store Fire, Rutland Vermont, 1906 Real Photo Postcard pony 5 1/2" x 5 1/2"

5 1/2" x 5 1/2" x 1/2"

And this great long legged girl with her pink top and yellow pants and spade and and hoe and I'm not sure what at the end of her orange glove

19th century American

if I were better at identifying

embodiments of resourceful women making utilitarian things special

Combination Cash Store Fire, Rutland Vermont, 1906 Real Photo Postcard pony 5 1/2" x 5 1/2"With a little digging I figured out that the Combination Cash store captured here in 1906 in flames was a wholesale and retail department store located at 88 Merchant's Row in downtown Rutland, Vermont. (It was destroyed door, but rebuilt quickly after, and was a longtime neighbor to Woolworth's.) I didn't know that when I purchased it; it's just hard to argue with the beauty of a an early photo of a building on fire, even while tragic. And for me the