Azaleas in vivid crimson and rose cascade over weathered limestone walls beside the glassy surface of Big Spring in Tuscumbia, Alabama, their reflections shimmering among lily pads in this luminous Curteich linen-finish card — a scene that belies the dramatic history described on the back: the spring's banks were the site where, in 1777, Chickasaw warriors guided the first white settlers into territory held by the Cherokee. The card's reverse, printed in the Curteich "C.T. Art-Colortone" style, recounts that Big Spring flows at a minimum of 45,000,000 gallons per day, and that the Cherokee village on Spring Hill overlooking these waters was displaced in that fateful year. Tuscumbia is perhaps better known today as the birthplace of Helen Keller, whose family home Ivy Green sits just blocks from this spring — a connection that makes any Tuscumbia ephemera sought after by collectors of disability history and American biography alike.