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Comic cowboy roping a calf, "I'll Have It Cornored Soon", circa 1905

Subjects
Comics & HumorFarm Animals
Card type
Lithograph
Date
c. 1902 (Early)
Front of Comic cowboy roping a calf, "I'll Have It Cornored Soon", circa 1905, c. 1902 lithograph postcard
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Back of Comic cowboy roping a calf, "I'll Have It Cornored Soon", circa 1905, c. 1902 lithograph postcard
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About this postcard

A comic chromolithograph shows a bald, mustachioed man in a white shirt and red trousers swinging a lasso at a leaping red calf branded "WM," with fence posts and a cloud of dust behind him. The punning headline "I'LL HAVE IT CORNORED SOON" plays on "cornered," and the card was used as a birthday greeting, as the handwritten wish "Many Happy Returns of the Day" indicates. Such humorous cowboy-and-cattle scenes were a staple of early twentieth-century American comic postcards, when the Wild West show and rodeo imagery was popular nationwide.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pencil

Congratulations Harry Many pleasant hours to you [illegible]

PublisherA. H.
I'LL HAVE IT CORNORED SOON Pub. by A. H—144 --- Post Card THIS SIDE FOR THE ADDRESS
Stamp
Addressed to
Harry Miller

60 Bedford St., Cumberland, Md.

Postcard record

PublisherA. H.
Series144
ConditionFair
Stamp1c Benjamin Franklin, green, issued 1902, perforated on all sides
NotesUndivided-back era comic card with a printed rule border; heavy foxing, staining and edge wear; handwritten greeting on the front. Postmark: CUMBERLAND MD JUN [illegible] 1907 2 PM — undivided back with printed "THIS SIDE FOR THE ADDRESS", 1¢ green Franklin stamp, heavy toning, foxing and red/blue ink offset stains.

Cite this card

Comic cowboy roping a calf, "I'll Have It Cornored Soon", circa 1905, postcard, c. 1902. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/comic-cowboy-roping-a-calf-ill-have-it-cornored-soon-circa-1. Accessed October 25, 2026.