Condense Factory Fire at Night, 1908 Real Photo Postcard tole painted box with flowers accessories

accessories

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

12" x 18" and in overall good condition

I  love the combo of the smooth tops and roughly textured sides

They don't quite stand on their own as is

Condense Factory Fire at Night, 1908 Real Photo Postcard tole painted box with flowers accessoriesI believe the Condense Factory captured here on fire was in Tillsonburg, Ontario, Canada, and though I am not 100% sure I think may have produced condensed milk. In any case, quite a spectacular and haunting photograph, all the more so for the details captured, from the illuminated frame of the house like structure at right, what look perhaps to be picnic tables in the foreground, and what might be a shadowy figure at left. Plus the spark filled black