Life Magazine – July 22, 1920 (# 1968) – Sad Shipwreck Art by Anton Otto Fischer

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Cover : Man and woman in vintage (older than 1920) clothing kissing in the formal garden, her hat hides both of their faces, “The original one-man top,” art by Rea Irvin and Calvert.

– Full page color ads for Nordyke & Marmon cars (with green car on dark brown background), Prophylactic brushes (nice art of mother brushing her teeth and girl using a brush on her hands).
– Full page black and white ads for United States Rubber Company tires (Opinions about tires should be weighed as well as counted), Goodrich Silvertown cord tires, White Trucks (first in stability), Chandler Motor Car Company (with Chandler Six touring car), Lincoln Motor Company (With photos and information about Henry M. Leland and Wilfred C. Leland),
– Full page art or cartoon art by Rodney Thomson (with insert poem by Edward W. Barnard, “Roses”), C. F. Peters (What is his social position?), Charles Dana Gibson (two pages : Garden ornaments, two lovely young ladies sitting in the garden), Louis Raemaekers (Bolshevik or Bolshevictim), H. T. Webster (The go-as-you-please marriage).
– Two page centerspread art by Anton Otto Fischer, The Sixth Day, man and dog shipwrecked in life boat as another ship goes by barely visible in the fog as man sleeps.
– Some current events include : Ohio as representative of the whole US in elections (apparently two Ohio newspaper men are the two opposing party presidential candidates : Warren G. Harding and James M. Cox), Radicalism means change, Prohibition, Brother Bryan.
– And much, much more.