Begue's Restaurant stands on a corner in the French Quarter, a two-story brick building with a deep gallery of slender columns wrapping both street fronts, dormer windows and tall chimneys above, and a horse-drawn wagon at the curb. Elizabeth Kettenring Begue, a German-born cook known as Madame Begue, ran the restaurant; her late-morning second breakfasts drew locals and visitors in the 1880s and 1890s. She died in 1906, and the building at Bourbon and Conti Streets continued as a restaurant under other names.
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5017
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Very good
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Wide white margin at right carrying the printed caption; undivided-back era production. Slight edge and corner wear.
No postmark. Undivided back with "Nothing but address on this side" and a "Place Stamp Here / Domestic One Cent / Foreign Two Cents" stamp box — typical 1901–1907 era. Unused and blank; light soiling and a few foxing spots.
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Begue's Restaurant, New Orleans, LA, circa 1905, postcard, c. 1901. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/begues-restaurant-new-orleans-la-circa-1905. Accessed November 2, 2026.
