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Life Magazine – July 27, 1893 (# 552)
$22.00
Magazine Condition : POOR (All Good, but missing back cover. Once bound, spine is a bit rough from where it was removed from bound volume and pages may be loosening. Edges of ad text may be barely trimmed. Minor spot on cover edge.)
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Description
Cover : Folks of various ethnicities dancing in a circle at the World’s Fair in Chicago, art by Charles Howard Johnson. Unusual color cover in orange.
– COLUMBIAN EDITION = World’s Fair : Columbian Exposition = Chicago World’s Fair 1893.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Dana Gibson (Sketches at the Fair, Buffalo Bill in centre), Chominski (Painter … It soon came to a choice between painting prettier girls with less clothing, or going without clothes myself.), T. S. Sullivant (Pyramid of elephants)
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, “Sketches at the fair : Life finds the foreign beauties attractive, but …”
– Some current events include : Duke of Veragua lost the bulk of his fortune gambling (editor says his life will now be much simplified), The Victoria disaster (accidentally rammed and sunk at Tripoli), Tornado in Iowa, Burning of firemen at the cold-storage fire at the Fair, The silver question in Congress, Humor in the form of a portrait of William Walter Phelps, Otto Von Bismark and two dogs by Koppay.
– Half page in orange Whiting Manufacturing Company silversmith’s ad.
– The religion of cash.
– Small ad for Calisaya La Rilla for digestive problems, in orange.
– Tiny ad for opium, the new 48 hour cure for addiction.
– Full page orange Montserrat Lime-Fruit juice ad with art.
– And many more smaller artworks, cartoon art, and ads … a very entertaining vintage publication!
– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Dana Gibson (Sketches at the Fair, Buffalo Bill in centre), Chominski (Painter … It soon came to a choice between painting prettier girls with less clothing, or going without clothes myself.), T. S. Sullivant (Pyramid of elephants)
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, “Sketches at the fair : Life finds the foreign beauties attractive, but …”
– Some current events include : Duke of Veragua lost the bulk of his fortune gambling (editor says his life will now be much simplified), The Victoria disaster (accidentally rammed and sunk at Tripoli), Tornado in Iowa, Burning of firemen at the cold-storage fire at the Fair, The silver question in Congress, Humor in the form of a portrait of William Walter Phelps, Otto Von Bismark and two dogs by Koppay.
– Half page in orange Whiting Manufacturing Company silversmith’s ad.
– The religion of cash.
– Small ad for Calisaya La Rilla for digestive problems, in orange.
– Tiny ad for opium, the new 48 hour cure for addiction.
– Full page orange Montserrat Lime-Fruit juice ad with art.
– And many more smaller artworks, cartoon art, and ads … a very entertaining vintage publication!
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