Example image only. Magazine condition may be different.
Life Magazine – May 20, 1915 (# 1699) – Optimists Number
$12.00 – $38.00
Magazine Condition Choices :
Good – once bound (Spine has a thin neat band of archival white tape, slightly trimmed)
POOR (Generally Good, nice cover, but has faintly water marked corner, really quite a nice copy)
Description
Cover : Fat bellied puppy asleep in a stupor next to an empty baby’s milk bottle, “The evils of intemperance,” art by Angus MacDonall.
– OPTIMISTS’ NUMBER.
– Interesting half page American Telephone and Telegraph ad “Neighborizing the farmer” about rural telephones.
– Excellent partial page artwork by A. B. Walker showing graduates hoping to take a shortcut to success but having to climb the ladder from the bottom.
– Full page color Kodak ad with man sitting on luggage at railroad station.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Raeburn Van Buren (Arcadia … children in an orchard), Charles Dana Gibson (Tragic Moments : engaged … old woman and very young man), William H. Walker (I am perfectly neutral),
– Two page COLOR centerspread art by Victor C. Anderson, “The optimist,” Rooster crowing the dawn on a dark rainy day.
– Some current events include : Lusitania sinks and the Kaiser sank it, “We slattern along in a state of vociferous neglect of preparation (for war).”
– Much more.
– Interesting half page American Telephone and Telegraph ad “Neighborizing the farmer” about rural telephones.
– Excellent partial page artwork by A. B. Walker showing graduates hoping to take a shortcut to success but having to climb the ladder from the bottom.
– Full page color Kodak ad with man sitting on luggage at railroad station.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Raeburn Van Buren (Arcadia … children in an orchard), Charles Dana Gibson (Tragic Moments : engaged … old woman and very young man), William H. Walker (I am perfectly neutral),
– Two page COLOR centerspread art by Victor C. Anderson, “The optimist,” Rooster crowing the dawn on a dark rainy day.
– Some current events include : Lusitania sinks and the Kaiser sank it, “We slattern along in a state of vociferous neglect of preparation (for war).”
– Much more.
