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Life Magazine – April 9, 1914 (# 1641) – Husband Struggling Toward Wealth
$32.00 – $42.00
Magazine Condition Choices :
Very Good (faint soil, outer page included twice, you could remove duplicate)
Good (Generally Very Good, but once part of a bound volume, so spine is a little rough and has been slightly trimmed).
Description
Cover : Couples doing rowdy modern dances at a traditional Japanese tea house, “A Tan go Tea House,” art by Rea Irvin.
– Full page COLOR ad for Victor Talking Machine company with nice art by Norman Price of people dancing.
– Half page real estate ad with photo for beautiful estate near Boston, in Chestnut Hill, constructed in 1906.
– Full page art or cartoon art by William H. Walker (Big Pale-face chief), Charles Forbell (Signs of Spring), Chester I. Garde (Greater efficiency in reluctant congregations … church ushers taking collection while dressed as robbers),
– EXCELLENT 2/3 page artwork by Birchfield, “The helpmate : Can’t you hurry a little, John? We don’t seem to be getting anywhere!,” Heavily overburdened man carrying wife and lots of possessions struggling uphill toward wealth.
– Two page centerspread art by Orson Lowell, “A warm reception : His Majesty, “Do they really know me – or not?””
– Some current events include : Bread lines, unemployment, I.W.W., wholesale laying off of railroads hands, editor calls this “Undigested Uplift” : it sounds much like “Trickle down economics.”
– Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1914 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!
