William Bliss Store and Shopkeepers, "We Belong to the Working Class," RPPC, 1906 small drawings There is a string tied

There is a string tied around the nail holding one leg in place

And maybe also because I keep fantasizing about a great old farmhouse bathroom with clawfoot tub in which I'd spend half my time soaking

and I know that Middse refers to Middlesex

which I found at the estate sale of an actress and philanthropist in Brookline

William Bliss Store and Shopkeepers, "We Belong to the Working Class," RPPC, 1906 small drawings There is a string tiedSuch 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