Life Magazine – December, 1921 (# 2039) – Maxfield Parrish

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LIFE Magazine Cover : Two cooks and a serving boy with platter of food, art by the excellent Maxfield Parrish.

– CHRISTMAS NUMBER (an extra thick issue).
– Dated “December 1921” on cover and “December 1, 1921” inside.
– Full page color McCallum silk hosiery ad with art by Mary MacKinnon.
– Full page art or cartoon art by B. Cory Kilvert (Who’s Who), Rollin Kirby (The Wise men), Clarence J. McCarthy (Mabel introduced her fiance´ to me yesterday), Charles Broughton (He refused to be entangled in the concerns of Fairyland), Rea Irvin (Two pages : The Merry Christmas Spirit), A. B. Frost (Christmas Morning), Arthur Guiterman and maybe FGC (Under the mistletoe), Victor C. Anderson (COLOR : I hear Santa Claus now), J. R. Shaver (A prayer), William Francis Ver Beck (Peter’s First Christmas), Albert Frueh (There are no secrets in the Santa Claus family), Pamela Vinton-Brown (With poem by Ted Robinson : Ballade of an annual difficulty), Charles Dana Gibson (Two pages : The Christmas spirit – come home and all will be forgiven), R. L. Goldberg (We suggest these few ways to overcome the high cost of Christmas), George Wright (COLOR : I am trying to make Adele believe there’s a Santa Claus), Gluyas Williams (The autobiography of a Christmas card),
– Gorgeous COLOR Two page centerspread art by Robert L. Dickey (Christmas Morning – as all dog lovers would like to have it … all gifts are dogs).
– Full page color Egyptian Deities cigarettes ad.
– Full page color Nunnally’s chocolates ad.
– Lovely full page color Kodak ad with art or colorized photo.
– And much more 1921   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!