Example image only. Magazine condition may be different.
Life Magazine – September 6, 1917 (# 1819) – Officers are Better?
$49.00
Magazine Condition : Fair (All Very Good, but has small stain on right edge. Cover is perfectly framable with a thin mat).
Out of stock
Description
Cover : Lady on the arm of a regular sailor starts talking to a naval officer, regular sailor looks very unhappy, “Jacks or better,” art by Paul Stahr.
– Full page color ads for Fatima cigarettes (neat sunset lighting on minarets), Rameses cigarettes, Victor Victrola (nice art of fiddler playing in town square).
– Full page ads for White Rock (neat white on grey silhouette art of people at various activities, very framable), Life magazine subscription, Nujol for constipation, White Company trucks (Interesting war-related art by Teale), Chandler Motor Cars, Marathon tires, Lucky Strike cigarettes.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Alexander Popini (Women in combat training … home guard? Of course we’ll fire if you say so, Colonel, but it seems a shame after the dear girls have just got it all clean), F. T. Richards (August), Charles Dana Gibson (two pages : Another peace proposal), Harry Grant Dart (1917 : returning a friendly call), Charles Forbell (In ye goode olde days : breaking in ye newe war steede).
– Small photos of fatherless French children, Baby 1472 Pierre Audebert, Baby 1376 Arlette Sainguery and her brother, Baby 1049 Gaston Dumont, Baby 1204 Marie-Jeanne Fleury, Baby 1353 Edmond Crorie and his brother.
– Wonderful small photo of five soldiers reading Life magazine July 26, 1917, sent home by artist Paul Goold, one of Life’s many staff now in camp.
– Two page centerspread art by Rea Irvin, Economies of the wealthy in war-time.
– “Negro soldiers are not secure against mistreatment by policemen and others in the South, nor are citizens in southern states secure against retaliation by mutinous negro soldiers bearing arms in the Federal service.”
– Some current events include : Negro soldiers stole ammunition, broke camp and killed seventeen people on a punitive expedition against the police of Houston, Everything is going to be regulated (especially coal, metals and food), German airmen on August 22nd repeatedly attacked and finally destroyed the French war hospital at Vadelaincourt, Wisconsin used to be a state of good reputation (La Follette).
– And much more 1917 2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!
