LIFE 1897

Historical Highlights from 1895 - 1899:

6 rolls bread - 5’
1 lb. fish - 8’
15 potatoes - 10’
3 lb. Oatmeal - 10’
6 eggs - 13’
2 lbs. chops or a steak - 20’
  • Wilhelm Roentgen discovers X-rays.
  • Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
  • Fannie Farmer published her first cookbook.
  • Dracula, a novel by Bram Stoker, is published.
  • Mark Twain, responding to rumors that he is dead, is quoted as saying, "The report of my death was an exaggeration."
  • The Klondike Gold Rush begins when the first successful prospectors arrive in Seattle.
  • Bayer first produces Aspirin.
  • New York City is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island.
  • The Spanish-American War lasts for ten weeks.
  • Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company controls 84% of the USA's oil and most American pipelines.




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Life Magazine – April 1, 1897 (# 745)

Life Magazine – April 1, 1897 (# 745)

Cover : Lovely soft art of woman dreaming of love lost (probably) with cupids who are looking discouraged, art signed but not quite legible, possibly...
$10.00

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Life Magazine – April 8, 1897 (# 746)

Life Magazine – April 8, 1897 (# 746)

Cover : Father asking daughter why her beau asked for her hand while drunk, art by D. A. MacKellar, probably Duncan. - Full page art or cartoon art...
$14.00

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Life Magazine – April 15, 1897 (# 747)

Life Magazine – April 15, 1897 (# 747)

Cover : Curious art in green and purple of Life’s cherub riding on a stag between a cricket player and a javelin thrower (?), art by Otho Cushing. -...
$24.00

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Life Magazine – April 22, 1897 (# 748)

Life Magazine – April 22, 1897 (# 748)

Cover : Man standing ready to fire cannon in front of sign “Notice to the art and literature of the world : Keep Out!”, America’s Greeting, art by F....
$14.00

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Life Magazine – April 29, 1897 (# 749)

Life Magazine – April 29, 1897 (# 749)

Cover : Little girl looking at her parents in bicycling garb, The Bicyclers, “Why, Mamma! Pa’s legs are punctured!”, (puffy above the knee, not puffy...
$20.00

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Life Magazine – May 6, 1897 (# 750)

Life Magazine – May 6, 1897 (# 750)

Cover : No Doubt, “The chances are Old John is dying a lot more comfortably (in hospital) than we are living” (in New York on $4,000 per year), not...
$14.00

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Life Magazine – May 13, 1897 (# 751)

Life Magazine – May 13, 1897 (# 751)

Cover : Turkish and Greek warriors fighting, “Greek Vase Painting, A. D. 1897,” art by F. G. Attwood. - Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Dana...
$14.00

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Life Magazine – May 20, 1897 (# 752)

Life Magazine – May 20, 1897 (# 752)

Cover : Nurse (President McKinley) feeding little Uncle Sam a huge bite of High Tariff, “Too much of a bad thing,” art by F. T. Richards. - Full page...
$14.00

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Life Magazine – May 27, 1897 (# 753)

Life Magazine – May 27, 1897 (# 753)

Cover : Woman reading Life magazine under large umbrella on the beach, art by Albert D. Blashfield. - VACATION BOOK NUMBER (much on reading, authors,...
$42.00

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Life Magazine – June 3, 1897 (# 754)

Life Magazine – June 3, 1897 (# 754)

Cover : Little Uncle Sam girl holding huge fat and loud rich baby, “That pension baby,” art by F. T. Richards. - Full page art or cartoon art by F....
$14.00

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Life Magazine – June 10, 1897 (# 755)

Life Magazine – June 10, 1897 (# 755)

Cover : Woman having a glass of wine with a man, “The uncertain future,” art by Stanlaws, probably Penrhyn Stanlaws. - Full page art or cartoon art...
$14.00

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Life Magazine – June 17, 1897 (# 756)

Life Magazine – June 17, 1897 (# 756)

Cover : Fancy lady stepping out of opulent coach door into the countryside, art by A. D. Blashfield. - RURAL NUMBER. - Full page art or cartoon art...
$32.00

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Life Magazine – June 24, 1897 (# 757)

Life Magazine – June 24, 1897 (# 757)

Cover : Queen Victoria accepting the homage of a lion, “Vivat Victoria Regina et Imperatrix,” art by F. G. Attwood. - Full page art or cartoon art by...
$14.00

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