Life Magazine – April 6, 1905 (# 1171) – Easter Number

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Cover : JUST PLAIN AWESOME, the devil tempts a young lady with a fancy Easter bouquet with lots of cards from admirers attached to it, art by Henry Hutt.

– EASTER NUMBER.

– Lots of great car ads!

– Full page black and white ads for Locomobile cars (purports to be a reward for a stolen car “My chauffeur chased him for some miles in a higher powered foreign car but was unable to overtake him, signed but I don’t recognize it NTLPY??), Standard Automobile Company (Decauville Car, nice art), Historians’ history of the world book set, Onyx Hosiery (cute art), Boston Garters, Sorosis shoes, White Rose glycerine soap, Williams shaving stick (some color).

– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Dana Gibson (Papa’s check will pay for our wedding trip. The Duke : But what are we going to do afterwards?), James Montgomery Flagg (The wonders of America : Niagara falls in 1950, down to a trickle and surrounded by industry and advertisements)

– Quarter page ad for Dutch Belted Cattle (G. D. Tilley of Darien, Connecticut).

– Two page centerspread art by William Balfour-Ker (sideways, so is long vertical art. An Easter Hymn, lonely man hearing only a single woman singing with the angels).

– Some current events include : Foreign Missions and the gift from John D. Rockefeller of $100,000 to help promote the spread of the gospel in foreign parts.

– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1905 content – fun!

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