Life Magazine –March 9, 1911 (# 1480) – Henry Hutt

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Cover : Woman pretending to study as she gazes at someone over the top of her book, “A student,” art by the talented Henry Hutt.

– Full page color ads for Maxwell-Briscoe Motor Company (with people in car watching crewing (rowing) race, art by Edward Poucher), Baker Motor Vehicle Company (Baker Electrics, art by S. V. Campbell, or something similar).

– Full page black and white ads for Locomobile (the “30” at Lismore castle in Ireland), Hupmobile Cars (Companion of the costliest cars at home and abroad), Dayton Motor Car Company (Stoddard 20).

– Humorous full page pertaining to Life’s great auto race (where automobile advertisers gain points by how many lines of advertising they buy), the final judges and the prizes.

– Full page art or cartoon art by Mark Fenderson (When woman usurps man’s rights, great group of small artworks showing things like woman mowing the grass while man reads in hammock).

– Two page centerspread art by William H. Walker, “Will it come to this?,” Other magazines charging the Life cherub in Fort Independence.

– Some current events include : The Wall Street Journal says that the present postal rate for magazines (one cent per pound) is responsible for a marked decline in American literature.

– “A great many people live pretty dull lives, especially farmers’ families and working women. They get comparatively harmless entertainment out of the cheap magazines.”

– Life’s Family Album (Mrs. Kate Masterson (photo and interview, of sorts).

–  Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1911 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!