Life Magazine – December,1890 (# 414) – CHRISTMAS Number

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Cover : Man and Woman leaning in to kiss while the Life cupid plays the violin, art by Charles Dana Gibson.

– CHRISTMAS NUMBER.
– Full page ads for Hollander’s Ladies’ fashions (with nice art), Deutsch & Company European Ladies’ fashions (with art by A., landscape format), C. G. Gunther’s Sons Furriers (nice art, landscape format), The Ladies’ Home Journal, Armour’s Extract of Beef (Great art), Mutual Life Insurance.
– Poem by Edward Irenaeus Stevenson, Christmas Botany.
– Lord Cairngorm’s Christmas.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Dana Gibson (Are both of your rings heirlooms?), Stephen W. Van Schaick (landscape format, Do you think dancing is wicked? Yes, if one dances as badly as you do), F. G. Attwood (Christmas Fairies), H. A. Ogden (landscape format, Who’s turn?, people playing cards and courting).
– Two page centerspread art by illegible (H… W…, A critical Moment, cupid is struggling to hold the horses for a couple in a sleigh).
– And many more smaller artworks, cartoon art, and ads … a very entertaining vintage publication!
– And much more 1890   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!