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Life Magazine – August 20, 1914 (# 1660) – To the Beach, cross-stitch
$42.00
Magazine Condition : Good (small scuff on blank cover edge)
Out of stock
Description
Cover : Man and Woman playing in the ocean near a light house, “Summer joys,” cross-stitch style art by A. D. Blashfield.
– Full page color ads for Coca-Cola (Ask the soda man, he’ll tell you the crowd drinks Coca-Cola, art signed with D with an arrow through it), Welch’s grape juice (with cute picnic art).
– Striking small artwork by Norman Anthony showing how canon balls turn into skulls.
– Full page black and white ads for Life subscription (cool art with camel by Orson Lowell), Johnnie Walker Red Label whisky (art by Leo Cheney), Chandler Motor Car company (with labeled engine), Willys-Overland Motor Cars.
– Two page COLOR centerspread art by Angus MacDonall, Hopes, young lady sitting on beach and looking across ocean toward all the young men who will be home some day.
– Some current events include : Everybody seems to feel that Germany might have stopped the war that Austria had started if she had wanted to, War, Germany, War, Germany, France, War, Germany … you get the idea.
– And much, much more.
