Life Magazine – April 25, 1889 (# 330)

Description

Cover : George Washington going to his inauguration, art by Chip = F. P. W. Bellew.  Note : cover paper is dark tan color, it is not age tanning.

– CENTENNIAL NUMBER (Centennial of the first inauguration of George Washington).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Dana Gibson, man and woman after first tentative kiss, F. M. Howarth (artwork on both sides of central crease, Patent Medicine Fritz and how his life was saved, a story of the Wild West).
– Full page poem by Ben Bent, The plaint of the modern infant with art by William Ludwig Sheppard.
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, On the way to his inauguration 1789.
– Some current events include : 100th anniversary of a decisive era in the governmental experiment of self-governing democracy.
– Life’s gallery of beauties number 15, Phineas Taylor Barnum, photo montage.
– 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 1889 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!