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"

19th century American

with Wilis’ name and the year 1883 spelled out in the banner held in the beak of the bird at top

also has a bit of a lumpiness to the form

if I were better at identifying

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