Life Magazine – December 1, 1910 (# 1466) – C. Coles Phillips – Christmas Number

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Cover : Lady in festive foreign gown opening a large crate sent by family, “The Absent one,” art by C. Coles Phillips.

– CHRISTMAS NUMBER (a very FAT issue with wonderful content).
– Full page color ads for Oldsmobile Limousine (not signed), Williams’ shavers, Rubberset brushes, Victor-Victrola, Locomobile (photo), Rambler closed cars, Gillette shavers, Maxwell-Briscoe Motor company (art by P), Rock Island – Golden State Limited railway, Goodrich Tires, Pierce-Arrow (with excellent western theme art by Edward Borein), Eastman Kodak.
– Full page ads for McCallum silk hosiery, Peter’s Milk Chocolate (with Wonderful art with Santa Claus, not signed), Hartford Suspension company (Truffault – Hartford shock absorber), The White gasoline car, Meriden silversmiths, Hupp-Yeats electric car company, Londonderry spring water, Belle Mead Sweets, Baldwin Piano, Educator Crackers, Woodbury’s Facial soap (nice art, sentry at an Atlantic Coast Fortress), Willys-Overland cars, Welch’s Grape Juice, Harper’s magazine.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Power O’Malley (I wonder which chimney it is? … Santa looking at house with many chimneys), Orson Lowell (landscape format : A word to the rich), Otho Cushing (four pages, The Memoirs of Columbia 1 and 2 and 3 and 4), Wilder (As it appears to some … Santa holding guns on an old gentleman as he empties his pockets), Harrison Cady (Beetleburgh does its Christmas shopping), Angus MacDonall (Nothing to do but grin and bear it), George Wright (probably)(Some Christmas dinners), Unsigned (two pages : a bird in the air is worth two on the ground), Balfour-Ker (The honeymoon),
– Why Burroughs Quit, a dramatic sketch by William Wallace Whitelock.
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, “A Christmas Story.”
– And much more 1910   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!