William Bliss Store and Shopkeepers, "We Belong to the Working Class," RPPC, 1906 1940 drawing There are a few holes

There are a few holes in the steel near the base for mounting to a wall indoors or out

I'm not quite sure how it was intended to be used

or hang on the wall

with royalty and high-ranking officials considering it fashionable to wear carved fruit pit accessories

and a patch of tiny black spots (maybe even fleabites) on her nightgown

William Bliss Store and Shopkeepers, "We Belong to the Working Class," RPPC, 1906 1940 drawing There are a few holesSuch a special one, I think! Hard to know which of this proud shopkeepers of William Bliss scrawled the note at the bottom of the front of this real photo postcard from 1906, but what a wonderful proclamation, and how poised and ready for business these six look! I tried searching for records of a William Bliss store in Whitman, MA, where it seems this postcard originated, but while I found many families with the name of Bliss in these parts, I didn't