A sea of broad, sun-yellowed tobacco leaves stretches to the horizon under a painterly pink-and-blue Kentucky sky — the kind of lush agricultural panorama that Curteich's Chicago chromolithographers rendered with an almost romantic intensity, the crop rows dissolving into autumn-touched treelines in the far distance. Published by Caufield & Shook of Louisville, this linen-era card (catalog number 7A-H3276, series KE-19) captures Kentucky's most iconic cash crop at its peak growing season, every leaf swollen and waxy, the fields humming with quiet industry. The back notes matter-of-factly that "the raising of tobacco crop is one of the chief industries of Kentucky" — an understatement for a state where burley tobacco was cultural identity as much as economy. Part of Curteich's "C.T. General Kentucky Scenes — 20 Subjects" set, this card was produced using the patented "C.T. Art-Colortone" process, the gold standard of linen postcard printing in the 1930s and 1940s.