Life Magazine – May 28, 1891 (# 439 ) – Rural Number

Description

Cover : Woman surrounded by flowers and butterflies, art by Charles Howard Johnson.

– RURAL NUMBER.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Dana Gibson (landscape format, Dobson is trying something that cures his craving for drink … whiskey), F. M. Howarth (art on both sides of center crease, How he got his model, a painter and a snake),
– Two page centerspread art by Albert Beck Wenzell, A trying moment, deciding whether to accept a man who has proposed at the beginning of the season.
– Some current events include : The Metropolitan Museum is finally to be opened to the public every Sunday afternoon, Harvard and Yale basball teams won’t play this year, The President returns to Washington after the largest travel intinerary of any President to date.
– And many more smaller artworks, cartoon art, and ads … a very entertaining vintage publication!
–  Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1891 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!