Combination Cash Store Fire, Rutland Vermont, 1906 Real Photo Postcard handmade snuff box and the back side

and the back side

so perhaps those are flowers of mourning

which would extend into the neck of the bottle

cushy upholstered seat

perhaps meant to be Native American

Combination Cash Store Fire, Rutland Vermont, 1906 Real Photo Postcard handmade snuff box and the back sideWith 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