Life Magazine – April 14, 1910 (# 1433) – Wildhack – Garden Number
$12.00 – $48.00
Magazine Condition Choices :
Good
POOR (Missing center spread page. All else Good, with Very Good covers, front and back. Once bound, so spine a bit rough, double pages loose on binding strings.)
Description
Cover : Happy old gardener watering tiny new plant while dreaming of the big apple tree it will grow into, “Hope Springs Eternal,” art by the talented Robert John Wildhack. Every gardener will want to frame this cover!
– GARDEN NUMBER.
– Full page color Columbia Automobiles, Columbia Motor Car company ad with really nice art by George Gibbs, looks like southern coast of Europe.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Orson Lowell (The Mrs. Decides that while business is so bad …, landscape format).
– Two page center spread art by the wonderful Harrison Cady, “The Battle of Hunker’s Hill” with detailed ranks of various critters and insects laying siege to a farm on top of a hill.
– Very nice full page color Peerless Motor car ad, side view of seven passenger car with three people in back, two people in front, one man standing at center, house in background, not signed.
– Some current events include : The awful hold philanthropy may get on a person illustrated by the case of Sidney Adams, forgery, Mr. Rockefeller’s great talent has been in the organization of great machines for doing business, Andrew Carnegie, Colonel Roosevelt’s speech in Cairo, Abruzzi-Elkins sorrow in Italy.
– Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1910 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!
– Full page color Columbia Automobiles, Columbia Motor Car company ad with really nice art by George Gibbs, looks like southern coast of Europe.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Orson Lowell (The Mrs. Decides that while business is so bad …, landscape format).
– Two page center spread art by the wonderful Harrison Cady, “The Battle of Hunker’s Hill” with detailed ranks of various critters and insects laying siege to a farm on top of a hill.
– Very nice full page color Peerless Motor car ad, side view of seven passenger car with three people in back, two people in front, one man standing at center, house in background, not signed.
– Some current events include : The awful hold philanthropy may get on a person illustrated by the case of Sidney Adams, forgery, Mr. Rockefeller’s great talent has been in the organization of great machines for doing business, Andrew Carnegie, Colonel Roosevelt’s speech in Cairo, Abruzzi-Elkins sorrow in Italy.
– Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1910 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!
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