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Life Magazine – August 11, 1892 (# 502) – Reservation mess-up
$24.00
Magazine Condition : Good
Out of stock
Description
Cover : It might be so: a man is happy someone else married “his” girl, art by Lee Woodward Zeigler.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Albert Beck Wenzell (Smoking jacket to be an exact copy of the Holy Coat at Treves).
– Quarter page ad for Rock Island Railroad and the Rocky Mountain Limited, one day service from Chicago to Denver, Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Manitou Springs.
– A Love Tail, showing the beauties of English orthography, poem by E. T. Corbett.
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, At the Summer Hotel, the prominent citizen who wrote a month ago, engaging the best rooms in the house (family, maid and crying baby stuffed into the attic).
– Some current events include : The trolley question (Cheap rapid transit versus the value of human life – trolleys kill lots of people), Colonel Streater ordered Private Iams to be tied up by the thumbs, Pennsylvania militia, Don’t strike unless you are honestly prepared to quit your job and find another.
– And many more smaller artworks, cartoon art, and ads … a very entertaining vintage publication!
– And much more 1892 2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!
