Life Magazine – August 20, 1891 (# 451) – Ring on Time

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Cover : Love is Everything, “She : Now I want to wear the engagement ring at the next hop.  Please be sure you get it on time.  He : They have already told me they would let me have it on time,” art by the excellent Charles Dana Gibson.

– Full page art or cartoon art by Albert Wenzell (2/3 page : cute one about being engaged to four girls at once and wanting to keep them all).
– Two page centerspread art by William Jacob Baer, A suggestion for that World’s Fair Tower at Chicago (worshipping drink, corruption, and greed), Portrait format.
– Some current events include : The fight of the Schuyler family AGAINST the proposition of the Woman’s Memorial Fund Association to exhibit a statue of Mrs. George L. Schuyler as a typical American philanthropist at the Chicago World’s Fair (the Life editors were on the side of the WMFA, a whole page on it).
– An extremely great half page comic work about the New Jersey mosquito, art by T. S. Sullivant.
– And many more smaller artworks, cartoon art, and ads … a very entertaining vintage publication!
– And much more 1891   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!

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