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"

but finding them rarer and rarer to come by--and to my eye the handwritten lettering on this one--and the content of it

19th century American

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

and must say it's a pretty satisfying rattle to wave around

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