Life Magazine – August 23, 1917 (# 1817) – Protecting Liberty

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Cover : A soldier and a sailor, with crossed bayonets, guarding the Statue of Liberty, “The light that shall not fail,” art by Rodney Thomson.

– Full page color ads for Fisk Tire Sundries (with art of cute toddler holding tire patch box), Vanity Fair magazine (with larger reproduction of September 1917 cover, Velvet tobacco (with Mother Nature shooing out unwanted elements).
– Full page ads for Nujol for constipation (Standard Oil), Macbeth Lens (two pages, car headlights with green visor).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Alexander Popini (Trouble in the Commissariat : nobody has nerve enough to kill a chicken … women in the home guard), Harry Grant Dart (Uncle Sam getting served poorly by the Congress), Charles Forbell (A dream that did not come true … looks like Germany chopping up opposition), Ellison Hoover (Landscape format: Our next Congress, if the present one is an indication), Crawford Young (If we all practiced frightfulness), Charles Forbell (In ye goode olde days : Huntyng ye foxe), Charles Forbell (In ye goode olde days : ye jester springth ye chestnut).
– Small photo of fatherless French children Baby 539 Marcelle Marlot, Babies 1018 and 1019 Jean Hamon and Josephine Hamon and sister, Babies 899 and 897 Louis and Charles Mordant and their brothers (six kids!).
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, The Paranoiac, Ladies Honor, Justice, Compassion and Civilization pointing at German Kaiser as beaten Belgium cowers behind him.
– Many of these 1917 issues have half page artworks titled “The Willowbys’ Ward, they are charming vignettes about the trials of an old couple with the care of a young woman.
– Some current events include : Making corn bread from corn, The government wants thousands of cooks to feed our new troops, Medical care plan for injured soldiers.
– And much, much more.