Life Magazine – December 2, 1926 (# 2300) – Coles Phillips, Christmas

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Cover : Young woman holding a check (her Christmas present), “There IS a Santa Claus,” art by C. Coles Phillips.

– Date on cover is December 1926.
– CHRISTMAS NUMBER (a FAT issue with 76 pages and extra color).
– Full page color ads for Parker Duofold Desk sets (artist is possibly Winslow), Marlboro cigarettes (nice dressing room art), Gillette razors, Roger & Gallet Flerus d’amour perfume, Ipswich Hosiery (Nice art by The Reeses), Tareyton cigarettes (fox hunting art), Coty, Seald Sweet tangerines, Willy-Knight, Marmon cars.
– Full page ads for Grebe Synchrophase (art by Raymond Thayer), Douglas Lighter), Gorham silversmiths, Brooks Brothers, Martini & Rossi (art by Shanks, Santa Claus at No 10 loses job and whiskers), Isher Bodies (art by McClelland Barclay), Locomobile, White Rock Ginger Ale.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Milt Gross (Mine Dollink Tsenta Cluss), Fred G. Cooper (Ballyhoo!), H. T. Webster (The girl who wrapped up 48,979 parcels), Charles Dana Gibson (Art is long), John Held, Jr. (Do you know that red stuff on your lips will give one septicaemia?), C. H. Sykes (Samuel), Ellison Hoover (Raising blue-blooded tractors on a tractor farm in Kentucky), L. T. Holton (Don’t open till Christmas).
– Life’s polar expedition hops off again!
– Some current events include : Peace and good will, Christmas spirit, Paying off the debt, Maintaining a proper military force, Harvard and Princeton and football.
– And much more 1926   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!