Life Magazine – April 12, 1917 (# 1798) – Girls Ready for Confirmation

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Cover : Really cute fade-away-style art of little black girl in a line of white girls getting ready for confirmation, “The way to heaven,” art by H. Hill.  Who knows more about this artist?

– Full page color ads for Rameses cigarettes, Victor Talking Machines with Caruso as Canio.
– Full page ads for Resinol Soap (art by AAP, in a triangle), Prudential group insurance, Life magazine, Weed anti-skid chains, Republic tires, Reed & Barton fine silver and more, Torbensen Axle company.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Birch (Professor, do you think the study of Latin and Greek essential …?), William H. Walker (two pages, To our best friend, US giving France one billion dollars), Orson Lowell (Her first high jump, how it seems, horse jumping), Charles Dana Gibson (For humanity, Lady Liberty holding the torch high while walking through the battle field), Charles Forbell (In ye goode olde days : ye barde readeth ye springe poemme).
– Small photos of French baby 856 Andre Longlet, Baby 742 Suzanne Jourdain with her family, Baby 781 Elise Sicard with her family, Baby 223 Jeanne Bouchard with her sister and brother.
– Two page centerspread art by Ellison Hoover, Krieg mit Amerika, Germans taking over the USA.
– Some current events include : President says German Government has declared war against the United States, Turks in Palestine, Overturn in Russia.
–  Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1917 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!