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Life Magazine – April 16, 1908 (# 1329) – Marriage Proposal
$32.00
Magazine Condition : Fair (All Very Good, but has mild corner water mark)
Out of stock
Description
Cover : Woman on her knees, asking for the hand of a doubtful man (reversal of usual marriage proposal), art by James Montgomery Flagg.
– Full page color ad for Baker Electric Vehicles with labeled art of five different automobiles.
– Full page artworks by unsigned (LIFE’s car passing Niagara falls).
– Fantastic gardening theme two page centerspread art by Harrison Cady, “On the arrival of their first order of seeds, etc., Mr. and Mrs. Gardener are escorted by enthusiastic natives.”
– Current events include : The Easter rabbit, 19-year-old Silverstein sets off a bomb in Union Square and kills one bystander and mangles himself, Aborted meeting of the Socialists.
– Another chapter in the made-up story of the LIFE car in the New York to Paris auto race, including cute quarter page photo from the Garden of the Gods (Colorado) with LIFE’s car in the air above them.
– Half page Kelly-Springfield tires ad with horses and carriage and tires for the carriage wheels.
– Half page artwork by James Montgomery Flagg, “When the sin of betting is abolished,” three old guys in jockey’s silks walking old nags around a track with very few spectators.
– Much more.
– Much more.
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