Life Magazine – December 19, 1918 (# 1886) – Norman Rockwell – American soldier with French “mother”
$48.00
Magazine Condition : Fair (All Good, but has water marked corner, not bad)
1 in stock
Description
Cover : Adorable scene of American soldier showing a photo of his mother to a French (?) mother, he is holding the airmail envelope in his other hand, she is knitting, “My Mother,” art by Norman Rockwell.
– Full page color ads for Murad cigarettes (great art of Santa dressed as a soldier, not signed), Fatima cigarettes (nice art of naval battle scene, not signed).
– Full page ads for Life calendars, Life magazine subscription.
– 2/3 page ad for Gem Damaskeene razor, Khaki service outfit with rather nice art of military men.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Ellison Hoover (The peace conference : arrival of the Hun delegates), Charles Dana Gibson (unusual style, looks like charcoal over pen and ink : If the Hohenzollerns had been obligated to make their own living, thugs preying on a young girl), Charles Forbell (The Showman’s dream : captured Kaiser Wilhelm), Harry Grant Dart (No place for her).
– Small photos of fatherless French children: Baby 2513 Rene Briant, Babies 2895 and 2896 Genevieve Rousseau and Denise Rousseau, Baby 2643 Henri Baudet, Baby 2791 Georges Fomerand and his siblings, Baby 1653 Auguste Coris and his siblings.
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Broughton, La Belle France, now, to Work!
– Some current events include : The “freedom” of the seas, Champ Clark, President Wilson may have taken some of his female relatives with him on the George Washington, Mayor Hylan of New York, German agents listed patriot Samuel Untermeyer as a friend of Germany.
– And much, much more.
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