Life Magazine – July 1, 1926 (# 2278) – 100% American Number

– HUNDRED PER CENT AMERICAN NUMBER (fun issue!).
– One hundred and forty-three years of Liberty and Seven years of prohibition.
– Full page color Buick car ad with blue car and two women at poolside, not signed.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Fred Mizen (Marmon car ad), I. Karl (Packard ad), Strothmann (And don’t let me catch you again hanging around with those good-for-nothing sons of Freedom at the tavern), C. H. Sykes (The battle of Bunkum Hill), Schmidt (Fisher Bodies ad with saw mill scene), Timmins (Dodge Brothers ad).
– Two page centerspread art by Victor C. Anderson, “Padlocked,” man driving his team of thirsty horses to the fountain for a drink, but the fountain has been covered over and locked, art is a kind of golden sepia tone, age of the auto.
– Some current events include : Procession of ecclesiastics on their way to the Eucharistic congress, Roman Catholic Church, Brother Brisbane, Modern warfare is so costly that it ruins even the victor.
– Full page Fisk tires ad with really nice art by Robert L. Dickey, dogs on one side of fence looking at colt on the other side.
– And much more 1926   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!