Example image only. Magazine condition may be different.
Life Magazine – January 28, 1909 (# 1370) – Waiting at Stage Door
$12.00 – $38.00
Magazine Condition Choices :
Good – Once Bound (All Good, nice, but once part of a bound volume so spine is a little rough).
Fair (Generally Good, but both covers have a tear with a chip gone at the lower left on the front cover, Some cover edge wear, mild cover soil).
NOTE : Neither issue is dark along the spine like shown in the sample image.
Description
Cover : A lovely young lady serving tea or coffee, “Divine Service,” art by C. Coles Phillips.
– Full page color ad for Southern Pacific Steamships, a hundred golden hours at sea.
– Full page black and white ads for Paris – Lyon – Mediterranee Railway PLM,
– Full page art or cartoon art by F. T. Richards (January), Art Young (Shots at the truth), Harrison Cady (Humorous car wreak over the side of a bridge).
– Two page centerspread art by Orson Lowell, “Waiting,” a line of people, mostly men, waiting at the stage door after a performance of dancing girls. I wonder what the story is behind the dour older lady who is in the line.
– One of those not-politically-correct cartoons by William H. Walker, “Madame Zambezi gives a dinner dance,” African tribesmen dancing around a trussed up white man sitting by a fire and cook pot, half page.
– Some current events include : How the growth of wealth and security helps with equality for women; Harvard Corporation has again selected a man to be president of Harvard College; The new president is Mr. Lowell is a former record-breaking mile-runner.
– “If we would rather see woman suffrage tested by further experiment before we adopt it ourselves, we have only to sit tight awhile longer and continue to read the European news.”
– And much, much more.
