Branding Cattle Deming New Mexico NM 1900s Fred Harvey Ranching Postcard

✍️ Message on the Postcard

Back:
Better call than never.
Received brought this in his next week.
Jack

🖼️ Information on the Front of the Postcard

📝 In-Scene Text
Not visible

🏢 Publisher Information
Not visible

💬 Captions
Branding Cattle, Deming, N. M.

📬 Information on the Back of the Postcard

📮 Address
Miss Thekla Sierra
Jacksonville, Magazin
New Orleans, La.

📅 Postmark & Stamp
The stamp is a green 1-cent U.S. postage stamp depicting Benjamin Franklin, from the 1902-08 definitive series (Scott #300), with “UNITED STATES OF AMERICA” at the top and “POSTAGE ONE CENT” at the bottom.
The postmark is a partial circular mark with a killer bar. The year “1903” is clearly visible. Other details like the month, day, and time are not fully legible.
Postmark location appears to be “STAE.” but not fully legible.

🏛️ Publisher & Postal Note
**Publisher**: FRED HARVEY (printed vertically on the left edge)
**Postal Note**: Post Card. (printed at the top left)

📌 Context
This postcard dates to 1903, placing it squarely in the “Golden Age of Postcards” in the United States, when postcards were a popular and inexpensive form of communication. The 1-cent Benjamin Franklin stamp was the standard domestic postcard rate at the time. The recipient’s address includes “Jacksonville, Magazin, New Orleans, La.” It is highly probable that “Magazin” is an abbreviation or misspelling of “Magazine Street,” a well-known thoroughfare in New Orleans. “Jacksonville” might refer to a specific building, cross-street, or neighborhood along Magazine Street. The message itself is brief and informal, as typical for postcards. “Better call than never” is a common idiom. The second sentence, “Received brought this in his next week,” is grammatically a bit clunky but likely a casual update, perhaps indicating an item or piece of information has been received by the sender and will be delivered or communicated by a third party (“his”) to the recipient the following week. The sender, “Jack,” indicates a personal relationship with the recipient. Fred Harvey was a prominent entrepreneur known for his hotels, restaurants, and extensive line of souvenir items, including postcards, particularly from the American Southwest and along railroad routes.

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