Combination Cash Store Fire, Rutland Vermont, 1906 Real Photo Postcard pony with Wilis’ name and the

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

I can't imagine a more charming set of Old Maid cards than these

embodiments of resourceful women making utilitarian things special

simple gestures

Combination Cash Store Fire, Rutland Vermont, 1906 Real Photo Postcard pony with Wilis’ name and theWith 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