Life Magazine – October 7, 1926 (# 2292) – B. Cory Kilvert

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Cover : Fat Pug dog sitting on a cushion, The Last of the Victorians, art by B. Cory Kilvert.

GAY NINETIES NUMBER
– Full page French Line ad, for travel in North Africa.
– Attractive full page Mimeograph ad.
– Half page Strothmann cartoon pertaining to Cable Cars and Subways.
– Great full page comparing Thirty years of Progress : 1896 (by Charles Dana Gibson) and 1926 (by John Held Jr.).
– Gay Nineties contest of photos from the 1890’s – readers are to identify them and say what they are famous for now.
– The menace of the stereopticon.
– A short piece on swimming suits, bathing dresses, from 1899.
– Much on life in the Gay Nineties.
– Editorial topics include Isolationism, hurricanes, gossip repeated by Senator Caraway, Yvette Guilbert, Kipling’s new book, Ku Klux Klan.
– Two page center spread art of the Gay Nineties, by Richard Culter.
– Many cartoons of “Vanished Americans” – stereotypes that no longer exist.
– Full page illustrated ad for Reed & Barton silverware.
– Full page ad with color for Willys-Knight Great Six auto.
– And much more 1926   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!