Life Magazine – April 15, 1897 (# 747)
$24.00
Magazine Condition : Good/Fair (Once bound, some spine is a bit rough from where it was removed from bound volume and pages may be loosening. Binding string and some spine glue marks visible inside. Library stamp at top of front cover. Some minor tape repairs inside, and a short repair at bottom edge of front cover.).
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Categories: LIFE 1897, LIFE Magazine 1883-1936
Tags: LIFE 1897, LIFE Magazine
Description
Cover : Curious art in green and purple of Life’s cherub riding on a stag between a cricket player and a javelin thrower (?), art by Otho Cushing.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Dana Gibson (landscape format : Family is of a very long descent), C. Allan Gilbert (The self-denying girls’ return to earth), F. G. Attwood (two pages, with text by E. S. Martin, Easter),
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson (It does not follow, because a smoker suddenly gives up smoking, …).
– Some current events include : Painful if arbitration treaty is lost, Government is a necessary evil, Texas Congressman Bailey won’t wear a dress suit … even to dinner at the White House, Nansen’s book about Arctic travel “Farthest North.”
– And many more smaller artworks, cartoon art, and ads … a very entertaining vintage publication!
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson (It does not follow, because a smoker suddenly gives up smoking, …).
– Some current events include : Painful if arbitration treaty is lost, Government is a necessary evil, Texas Congressman Bailey won’t wear a dress suit … even to dinner at the White House, Nansen’s book about Arctic travel “Farthest North.”
– And many more smaller artworks, cartoon art, and ads … a very entertaining vintage publication!