Life Magazine – April 4, 1912 (# 1536) – Robert Wildhack – Easter Number

– EASTER NUMBER (this is a fatter than usual issue with more color pages, too).
– Full page color Armour’s Sylvan Toilet Soap, this is a lovely ad in Lilac purple, “Easter Greetings” with lilacs and violets.

– The interior title page has Easter-theme art by A. D. Blashfield with a herd of cupids helping a lovely lady select an Easter hat (the model was Marian Clifford Angell as identified by her granddaughter and 2Neat customer).

– Full page locomobile ad with photo of car (License 3558-Y), windmill, and two Dutch children.
– Full page ads for Abbott Motor Company, Welch’s grape juice, Lozier cars (nice art but unsigned), Reo Motor Car Company, Truffault – Hartford Shock Absorbers with art, Kelly Springfield tires, Goodrich tires.
– Full page color Naiad Dress Shields ad with lovely fade-away art by C. Coles Phillips, lady in pink and purple at white dressing table.
– Full page art or cartoon art by F. T. Richards (March), Robert John Wildhack (Come back to Errin), Wm. H. Walker (Bhryne before the Areopagus, landscape format), Arthur T. Merrick (Ahead of time), R. G. Russom (future with much aviation), William B. King (In the home of a suffragette … What’s the news in the papers about Mother?).
– Two pages of caricatures by James Montgomery Flagg (Some Gotham Lights : Walrus P. Irwin, Charles Dana Gibson, Frank Crowninshield, Art Young, Dr. Woods Hutchinson, Burges Johnson, Rupert Hughes, J.M.F., and Frederic Townsend Street.)
– Two page COLOR centerspread art by Wm. L. Jacobs (With this ring I thee wed).
– Some current events include : London militant suffrage sisters and overzeal, Pankhurst mania, The martyrs in London were the assailants not the assailed, A simple method of recall at Hillsville in Virginia.
– Full page color Belle Mead Sweets.
– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1912 content – fun!