Life Magazine – November 3, 1887 (# 253) – Presidential Cup

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Colored Cover (sepia) : Rival listening to woman sing at musicale, art by Stephen Van Schaick.

– Artists and cartoonists include H. McVickar, Chip, A. S. Daggy, F. M. Howarth, A. Brennan (full page), and others.
– Two page center spread art by Charles Dana Gibson, The National Handicap for the Presidential Cup.
– Current topics include De Lancey Nicoll, Mr. Charles Dudley Warner and the charm of women, Haskell incident at Minneapolis, and more.
– The cigarette evil, gives some statistics.
– The Newport school.
– Changing scenes, poem by Frank B. Welch.
– Small ad for James McCreery & Company colored silks.
– Half page Pears’ soap ad, For the Compexion, fanning lady.
– Full page sepia United States Mutual Accident Association insurance ad with dressage horse art by A. Brennan.
– Pretty sepia Naphtha Launch boat ad.
– Pretty sepia Caligraph Writing machine (typewriter) ad.
– And much more 1887 2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!