Life Magazine – April 30, 1891 (# 435) – Yale Crew Team

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Cover : Revenge.  Man responding to a bad waiter, art by Clifford Carleton.

– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Dana Gibson (In the midst of the fight, polygamy), F. G. Attwood (A discussion on the theory of self-government, a street brawl, landscape format).
– Two page centerspread art by Wilson de Meza, “A shrine to no code or creed confined,” men of different types gathered around a single woman.
– Some current events include : Lenten quarantine, Young men’s minds turn to horses in May, William Henry Hurlbert has a bunch of erotica left in his apartments, Yale crew training on Schuylkill.
– “Of the twelve candidates for this year’s Yale boat, seven are understood to be consumptives, and the other five are puny creatures who have never pulled before this ear, except at bottles.”
– And many more smaller artworks, cartoon art, and ads … a very entertaining vintage publication!