Warm amber light floods the medieval half-timbered facades of Göttingen's famous Barfüsserstraße — the "Barefoot Street" — in this luminous Raphael Tuck & Sons Oilette card rendered by the talented British artist Charles E. Flower, whose painterly eye for European street life brings every shopfront, cobblestone, and strolling figure to vivid life; in the distance the tower of the Marktkirche St. Johannis rises above the rooftops in soft blue haze. The card was sent from Göttingen on July 18, 1907, by a nephew named Geo to his uncle Otto in San Diego, California, with the touching note: "I think of you when I walk on the barefoot-street. I hope you are well and got promoted." It arrived in San Diego with an August 1907 postmark, traveling across the Atlantic with two German Reich 5-Pfennig stamps affixed. Tuck Oilette artist-signed cards by Charles Flower are actively sought by collectors of both the Tuck publisher series and European topographic cards.