Example image only. Magazine condition may be different.
Life Magazine – August 2, 1917 (# 1814) – Red Cross Number
$22.00 – $48.00
Magazine Condition Choices :
Very Good (Faintest crease and has paper clip marks on edge of center spread)
Fair (Generally Good, but covers are lightly soiled with a library imprint. Cover is nearly loose from staples, but neatly so)
Description
Cover : Two Red Cross nurses standing on a pier watching a battle ship approach, “Ready and Waiting,” art by Angus MacDonall. Talk about poignant art.
– RED CROSS NUMBER.
– Full page color ads for Murad cigarettes (great art with man dressed for polo and woman dressed for horseback riding, not signed), Gordon dry gin, Columbia Grafonola.
– Full page ad for Marathon Tire and Rubber company, Mimeograph, Chandler Motor Car Company (with lovely art by (possibly) J. H. W. Crompton or Thrompton or Trompton).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Otho Cushing (Red Cross angel helping a wounded man, The spirit of the Red Cross), Crawford Young (Temptations of a recruit), Charles Dana Gibson (The Red Cross), Power O’Malley (When good fellows get together, the devil, the grim reaper and a soldier toasting war, landscape format), Harry Grant Dart (To stifle enthusiasm, sneak your men by back-alley routes to the ships), Charles Forbell (Poison gas drill at Plattsburg).
– Small photos of fatherless French children Baby 100 Renee Paillat and brother Andre, Baby 1017 Francois Pons, Baby 1116 Maurice Berthet, Babies 685 and 686 Rene and Charles Riaux.
– Two page centerspread art by William H. Walker, “More to Come,” Uncle Sam and a flotilla of Red Cross boats carrying money to Europe.
– Some current events include : The military draft has some ten million registered men, “One advantageous thing the war may be expected to do for us is to expose the weak spots in our system of government,” Germany says it did not desire war, Daughters of Bayard and Dana – militant suffragism.
– And much more 1917 2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!
