Excelsior Springs is a city in Clay and Ray counties in the state of Missouri and part of the Kansas City metropolitan area.  The population was 10,553 in 2020.  It is located along the East Fork Fishing River, approximately 30 miles northeast of central Kansas City, Missouri. 

   The town was founded because of the natural spring water that gushed from the depths of the earth. The spring was discovered in 1889 by a farmer, John Van Buren Flack, when he used the water to treat his daughter of tuberculosis and a log-cabin farmer Frederick Kugler also begin to treat his rhematic knees. Rev. John Van Buren Flack traveled there in 1880 after hearing about the medicinal values of the spring water.  The spring belonged to landowner Anthony W. Wyman. Flack advised Wyman to have the land platted and to begin advertising the cures the water held. 

   Flack built a home on a 40-acre tract that Wyman had platted and opened the town’s first dry goods store.  In 1880, Flack and Wyman partnered together to form the community of “Excelsior” in 1880 which was changed to Excelsior Springs in 1882. 

   This is a card, published by “Curt Teich” as one of his “American Art” series that chronicles “The Swinging Bridge, Siloam Park, Excelsior Springs”.  It is not postmarked but is a WB, 1915-30 and is in excellent condition with very minor wear and a clean, clear image and reverse.