Life Magazine – August 10, 1911 (# 1502) – Rea Irvin – Deep Sea Number

– DEEP SEA NUMBER.
– Full page color Lozier car ad with very nice artwork with dock and sailboats and the car, art by George Gibbs (I believe).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Mark Fenderson (Fish stories), William H. Walker (Noah Taft : Better get aboard before you’re driven in, landscape format), Angus MacDonall (I suppose you intend to be President some day?), Mark Fenderson (Welcome home).
– Life’s family album : Artist F. W. Read.
– South Pole Ahoy!, discovered by two representatives of Life, tremendous excitement in all parts of the world, with great spoof photos.
– Two page centerspread art by William L. Jacobs, “Why not?”.
– Some current events include : Mr. Morgan and the Guggenheims usurped all approaches from the sea to the Alaska coal mines except a few pitiful remnants of Controller Bay, Wool Tariff, Reciprocity bill, Rates on Western railroads have been reduced by the Interstate Commerce Commission, John J. McNamara of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers.
– “We believe a good deal that we hear and almost everything we read.  We do it in the teeth of experience …”
– Nice full page color Pierce-Arrow car ad, At the Opera, art by Louis Fancher.
– And so much more!  Life humor magazines are great FUN – get ready to grin, giggle and guffaw!