Life Magazine – February 21, 1901 (# 955) – Child George Washington

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Cover : George Washington as a child with measles, art by Peter Newell.

– Half page cartoon of George Washington cutting down huge trees with his little penknife, art by Thomas Starling Sullivant.
– Half page cartoon of the devil at Lent, art by Albert D. Blashfield.
– Editorials refer to Andrew Carnegie and other millionaires.
– The retrocessional, by Joseph Smith.
– Cartoons by Paul West, Kemble, Hamb, Peter Newell, F. T. Richards, Arthur E. Jameson (larger), C. Budd, Wilfrid Huggins, Gus Dirks, more.
– Diary of a diary, by Barrington Kidd.
– Two page center spread art by Charles Dana Gibson, A widow and her friends, # 18 (humorously, the faces of all the men she is nursing are the same as those who were pursuing her in the earlier cartoons).
– Drama, reminiscences from the very recent past, with photo of Blanche Bates, Ethel Barrymore.
– Full page art cartoon by F. T. Richards, The widow Custis receives an offer.
– Full page Equitable Life Assurance company ad with annual statement.