Two vivid inset room views — candy-pink bedspreads, hardwood floors, and the clean lines of metal furniture — frame the mascot of "Little King's Hotel Court" as the property's bird's-eye exterior view stretches below, rows of white cottage-style units flanking a tidy landscaped drive on U.S. Highway 66 west of Main Street in Joplin, Missouri, capturing the golden age of Route 66 motor travel in all its optimistic linen-print glory. Little King's advertised 60 rooms, 75 double beds, insulated walls and ceilings, Venetian blinds, storm doors, and central hot-water heat and air conditioning — the full postwar amenity checklist — and earned AAA approval, a coveted mark of quality for Depression- and war-era travelers navigating the Mother Road. Published by Curteich Chicago in their "C.T. Art-Colortone" process (card no. 8B-H1270), this unused linen card is a quintessential piece of Route 66 roadside Americana, the kind of advertising card placed in motel lobbies for guests to mail home. Joplin sat at the Kansas-Missouri border, making it a natural stopping point on the long drive west.