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Life Magazine – June 4, 1908 (# 1336) – Travel
$18.00 – $34.00
Magazine Condition Choices :
Good (center spread margin has large blank chip, doesn’t not touch art)
Fair (Generally Very Good, but has a corner water mark)
Description
Cover : Life’s cherub in a full traveling ensemble with walking stick and suitcase, art by James Montgomery Flagg. Be sure to read the stickers on his suitcase!
– TRAVEL NUMBER (much on traveling, modes of travel, travel destinations, travel humor).
– Full page ads for Mitchell Motor Cars of Racine Wisconsin, Studebaker Suburban (the adaptable car), Kellogg’s Toasted Corn Flakes (Color : Everywhere you go, everywhere they know … continuation of front cover art!).
– Lots of other smaller auto ads and ads related to cars.
– Full page artworks by William H. Walker (What an ex-President can du when his job is thru), Nesbitt Benson (John never plays for money … wife says about husband as he sits in front of huge winnings)
– Two page centerspread art by Harry Grant Dart, “The first international Aerocar Race.”
– Current events include : The interesting question about coal is whether it will go out of existence before it goes out of fashion, or vice versa (especially apt in 2017 with Trump trying to resurrect dirty energy). Flying machines have beun apparently to fly. Messages come from Europe by wireless. Mr. Hearst and his political projects. No great absurdity can flourish long after it is exposed.
– Half page photo of large group of children walking in a circle around the flag, Rallying Round the Flag at Life’s Fresh Air Farm.
– Humorous short piece about traveling with a dog (if you can smuggle him into a hotel room without detection, it fills you with a personal sense of triumph, etc.).
– Country man to Conductor “Which end of the car do I get off?” Conductor to Rustic “whichever end you prefer, both ends stop.”
– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1908 content – fun!
– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1908 content – fun!
