William Bliss Store and Shopkeepers, "We Belong to the Working Class," RPPC, 1906 1940 drawing I'd guess original to his

I'd guess original to his making

The one with the unstained wood has a chip in the wood on one end of the stained side

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

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

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

William Bliss Store and Shopkeepers, "We Belong to the Working Class," RPPC, 1906 1940 drawing I'd guess original to hisSuch 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