Life Magazine – November 7, 1918 (# 1880) – Norman Rockwell – American soldiers mothered in Europe

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Cover : Little Dutch girl cleaning behind the ear of a young American soldier, “The Little Mother,” art by the amazing Norman Rockwell. The soldier looks about 16 years old, to make the art even more poignant.

– Full page color ads for Columbia Grafonola, Rameses cigarettes, Rigaud’s Mary Garden beauty products.

– Full page black and white ads for Pierce-Arrow (no car, War and the Pierce-Arrow), Mimeograph, Timken-Detroit axles.

– Full page art or cartoon art by George McEvoy (The spirit of 1918, women working in the war effort), F. T. Richards (October), Ellsworth Young (Hun Honor, silhouette art).

– Small photos of French orphans Oscar Portet (Baby 3052), Marie Tourillon with her sisters (Baby 2954).

– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson (Jilted, the bridegroom, here victory, fails to arrive).

– Some current events include : The typewriter is again proving mightier than the sword, It is expected that the final collapse of Germany will be attended by desertion of the Hohenzollern government by the German masses, Kitchin, Peace effort.

– “The objection to elections is that they get one’s mind off the war, and this is no time to miss any round of it.”

– And much more 1918   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!